Prisoners

Mr. Malins
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many (a) Chinese and (b) Nigerian nationals are in prison in the UK;

(2) how many (a) Lithuanian and (b) Slovenian nationals are in prison in the UK;

(3) how many (a) Bulgarian and (b) Romanian nationals are in prison in the UK;

(4) how many (a) Polish and (b) Estonian nationals are in prison in the UK.

Mr. Hanson
The information requested is published quarterly for England and Wales, within the regular prison population in custody statistics available from the Ministry of Justice website:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm

The following table shows the information requested:

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|                                                                                                  |Number|
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|China                                                                                             |349   |
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|Nigeria                                                                                           |1,098 |
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|Lithuania                                                                                         |203   |
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|Slovenia                                                                                          |5     |
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|Bulgaria                                                                                          |33    |
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|Romania                                                                                           |140   |
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|Poland                                                                                            |362   |
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|Estonia                                                                                           |22    |
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|Note:Figures available from website: http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/population-in-custodySep07.pdf|      |
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Information on the numbers of foreign national prisoners serving prison sentences in prison establishments in Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Scottish Executive and Northern Ireland Prison Service respectively.

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.