Question follow-through · 35050
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the long-term financial savings from this initiative.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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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
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Foreign criminals to be deported quicker, published on 3 March 2025, what estimate she has made of the long-term financial savings from this initiative.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
The period 05 July 2024 to 31 January 2025 saw the removal of 2,925 foreign national prisoners serving sentences in prison or in the community. That is 21% more than during the equivalent period 12 months previously, under the previous Government. 1,557 o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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