To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals who have not been charged or convicted in UK courts are held in prison under anti-terror laws; and what the nationality is of each prisoner. (104383)

[holding answer 27 November 2006]: None.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2007, Official Report, columns 781-82W, on foreign prisoner releases, what offences were committed by those foreign national prisoners released from HMP Peterborough in the 12 months to 31 March 2006; and if he will make a statement. (110895)

[holding answer 25 January 2007): The requested information is not centrally recorded and could be obtained only by an examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners there are in England and Wales, broken down by country and by security category of each prison. (105099)

Information on the numbers of foreign national prisoners held in prison establishments in England and Wales, broken by (a) European Union and (b) other countries, and security category of prison establishment, can be found in the table.

The data, which are obtained from the prison IT system, are not shown separately by nationality within individual prison establishment because the numbers are small and the accuracy at this level of detail cannot be guaranteed.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and although shown to the last individual the figures may not be accurate to that level.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many foreign nationals were released from HMP Chelmsford immediately upon completing their sentence in each of the last five years; and what the (a) average and (b) longest time after the completion of sentence for the release of a foreign national from HMP Chelmsford in each year was; (110596)

Using data stored on the Prison IT system, comprehensive information on discharges is not available, and providing information based on manually stored records could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.