To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Bach on 7 December 2009 (WA 88), whether the 3,659 foreign nationals who received a custodial sentence of 12 months in 2008 have now been removed from the United Kingdom. [HL1726]

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Bach on 7 December 2009 (WA 88), whether the 3,203 foreign nationals who received a custodial sentence of 12 months in 2007 have now been removed from the United Kingdom. [HL1727]

Of those people identified by the National Offender Management Service as foreign nationals who received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more in 2007-08, approximately 40 per cent have already been removed, while those remaining continue either to serve their sentence, are held in UKBA detention pending removal, are monitored under UKBA contact management controls pending removal or have been established as British citizens or similar and thus not appropriate for deportation.

The figures are based on internal management information cross-referenced with management information provided by the National Offender Manager Service. As such, it should be considered provisional analysis and will exclude those cases where minor data variations do not allow a matching of records without referral to individual case files.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people (a) took, and (b) passed, the Life in the UK Test in each month of 2009. [HL1855]

The attached table shows the number of people who took the Life in the UK Test and how many passed throughout 2009.