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Offenders: Saudi Arabia

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of Saudi Arabian nationals with criminal convictions (a) conducting business and (b) living in the United Kingdom. (171881)

The requested information is not available. The recording by the police on the police national computer of the nationality of offenders in England and Wales is optional as there is no legislative obligation on individuals to provide this information. For this reason reliable statistics on the nationality of offenders cannot be compiled. In addition, the police national computer does not hold information on whether offenders are conducting business or currently living in the UK.