Question follow-through · 18747
Offenders: Deportation and Repatriation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) foreign national offenders have been deported and (b) UK citizens have been returned following imprisonment abroad for each country with which the UK has a prisoner transfer agreement in each of the
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Offenders: Deportation · 17 Dec 2024
- Offences against Children: Convictions · 7 Jan 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) foreign national offenders have been deported and (b) UK citizens have been returned following imprisonment abroad for each country with which the UK has a prisoner transfer agreement in each of the
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
Data on returns of foreign national offenders are regularly published in the Home Office’s quarterly release “Immigration Systems Statistics”.Statistics on UK citizens who were returned to England and Wales following imprisonment abroad are provided in th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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