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Prisoners: Foreigners

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007

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Mr. Steen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 16 April 2007, Official Report, columns 483-84W, on prisoners: foreigners (1) how many of the non-EU foreign nationals as at (a) 30 June 2005, (b) 30 June 2006 and (c) 28 February 2007 have been sent back to their country of origin; (136545)

(2) what percentage of the prison population of non-EU foreign nationals referred to in the answer were sent back to their country of origin before the termination of their sentence.

Mr. Byrne

[holding answer 14 May 2007]: The information requested is unavailable and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. On 19 February the chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency wrote to the Home Affairs Committee to provide the most recent information available on the deportation of foreign national prisoners.

A copy of this letter is available from the Library of the House.