PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prisoners: Repatriation (22 July 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to remove foreign national offenders from the UK during the covid-19 pandemic.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
We remain committed to removing foreign national offenders during the pandemic. We continue to remove where there are available routes and by charter flight operations.
On all removal flights public health guidance is adhered to, those on flights are seen by a healthcare professional before they are returned and anyone who is exhibiting symptoms would be removed from the flight and placed into medical isolation.
Foreign national offenders (FNOs) should be in no doubt of our determination to remove them and since 2010, we have removed more than 53,000.
Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
1 September 2020
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