PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals (18 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences the foreign nationals in prison in England and Wales were convicted on the most recent date for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

Foreign national offenders who have no right to remain in the UK should be removed at the earliest opportunity and the Government has toughened the system, including pursuing compulsory transfer agreements with European countries.

In addition, 23,000 foreign offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010 and more than 600 under the 'deport first, appeal later' provisions, with many more being processed through the system. The grounds on which criminals can appeal against deportation have been cut.

The table below details the offence types for the sentenced prison population in England and Wales, as of 31 December 2014. It also provides a breakdown to indicate whether the offender was a foreign national, a UK national, or nationality not recorded. As the table records only sentenced prisoners, it does not include remand prisoners, fine defaulters, civil prisoners or recalled prisoners.

Sentenced(1) prison population by offence type and nationality 31 December 2014
	Foreign National	UK National	Not Recorded	All
Violence against the person	1,657	16,089	30	17,776
Sexual offences	1,035	9,933	23	10,991
Robbery	527	6,609	7	7,143
Burglary	400	7,197	9	7,606
Theft and handling	341	2,891	17	3,249
Fraud and forgery	289	1,039	11	1,339
Drug offences	1,192	8,588	27	9,807
Motoring offences	88	647	6	741
Other offences	819	5,699	34	6,552
Offence not recorded	25	173	49	247
All	6,373	58,865	213	65,451

Answered by:
Andrew Selous (Conservative)
23 March 2015