Offenders: Deportation

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 23 December 2024.

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Photo of Rupert Lowe Rupert Lowe Reform UK, Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders serving prison sentences have been transferred to prison in their country of origin in each of the last five years.

Photo of Nicholas Dakin Nicholas Dakin Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

The table below shows the number of foreign national offenders removed under prisoner transfer agreements in each year since 2020, including 2024 to date:

2020

81

2021

73

2022

50

2023

33

2024

74

As the number of foreign national prisoners is constantly changing, it is not possible to represent the above figures as a proportion of the total.

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