To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners serving sentences of less than 12 months have a court recommendation for deportation. (317127)

At the end of June 2009, there were 990 foreign national prisoners (FNPs) in England and Wales, serving a sentence of less than 12 months.

Data on how many of these FNPs also received court recommendation for deportation are not held centrally and could not be provided without manual checking of records at disproportionate cost.

This figure has been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.