Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign nationals were given a custodial sentence of over 12 months in each of the past five years. [HL173]

The following table gives figures for the numbers of prisoners received into all prison establishments in England and Wales 2004 to 2008 with a sentence over 12 months, showing UK national, foreign national, and unrecorded:

*Prisoners with sentence lengths over 12 months by nationality received into prison establishments in England and Wales under immediate custodial sentence 2004-08*
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
UK Nationals	24,205	22,784	23,312	23,453	25,308
Foreign Nationals	2,963	3,196	3,163	3,203	3,659
Not recorded	91	94	73	87	82
Total	27,259	26,074	26,548	26,743	29,049

For information relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Prison Service can be contacted.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Volume 715: debated on Monday 7 December 2009