Prisoners: Foreigners Alan Duncan To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) male and (b) female foreign national prisoners there are, broken down by (i) offence category and (ii) length of sentence. Maria Eagle The most recent data available relate to June 2009. The following tables give the numbers of (a) male and (b) female foreign national prisoners (FNPs) showing both (i) offence category and (ii) length of sentence. ------------------------------------------------ |Offence category |Male |Female|Total| ------------------------------------------------ |Violence against the person|1,588|53 |1,640| ------------------------------------------------ |Sexual offences |881 |11 |892 | ------------------------------------------------ |Robbery |605 |6 |611 | ------------------------------------------------ |Burglary |292 |8 |300 | ------------------------------------------------ |Theft and handling |265 |56 |322 | ------------------------------------------------ |Fraud and forgery |779 |149 |928 | ------------------------------------------------ |Drug offences |1,841|297 |2,138| ------------------------------------------------ |Motoring offences |131 |0 |131 | ------------------------------------------------ |Other offences |479 |35 |515 | ------------------------------------------------ |Offence not recorded |23 |2 |25 | ------------------------------------------------ |Total |6,884|618 |7,502| ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- |Sentence length |Male |Female|Total| ------------------------------------------------------------- |Less than or equal to six months |588 |86 |674 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |Greater than six and less than 12 months|280 |36 |316 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |12 months less to than four years |2,015|172 |2,188| ------------------------------------------------------------- |Four years to less than life |2,973|301 |3,273| ------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate (including life) |1,028|24 |1,052| ------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |6,884|618 |7,502| ------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to the 7,502 sentenced prisoners, a further 3,848 were either untried, convicted unsentenced, a fine defaulter or non-criminals, giving a total of 11,350. 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.