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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time served by foreign nationals imprisoned in each of the past five years. [HL1873]
The table below shows the average sentence length and average time served for foreign national prisoners discharged from prisons in England and Wales in the past five years following the completion of a determinate sentence.
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Average sentence length in months Up to and including 6 months 3 3 3 3 3 Over 6 months and less than 12 months 9 9 9 9 9 12 months to less than 4 years 25 23 22 21 21 4 years to less than life 74 75 75 75 78 All sentence lengths 20 17 14 14 14 Average time served including remand in months Up to and including 6 months 2 2 2 2 2 Over 6 months and less than 12 months 4 4 4 4 4 12 months to less than 4 years 12 11 11 10 10 4 years to less than life 38 38 39 38 37 All sentence lengths 10 9 7 7 7
Data for 2009 are not yet available.
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.