(2) whether nationals from an EU country having served a prison sentence in England or Wales in the last five years have been deported following completion of sentence.
The Border and Immigration Agency will continue to take a robust approach in considering and, where international obligations allow, pursuing the deportation of European economic area nationals.
The chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency advised the Home Affairs Committee during her appearance of 15 January that more than 4,200 foreign national prisoners were removed or deported in 2007. More than 500 of these were nationals from European economic area countries.