Question follow-through · 38695
Offenders: Repatriation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her Department's policy to remove all foreign national offenders from UK prisons.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Offenders: Foreign Nationals · 22 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her Department's policy to remove all foreign national offenders from UK prisons.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
The removal of foreign national offenders (FNOs) is an important priority of this Government. FNOs who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will work with the Home Office to pursue their deportation.A...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Offenders: Foreign Nationals
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of incarcerating foreign national offenders in the last 12 months.
Lucy Connolly
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has received representations on the sentencing of Lucy Connolly.
Criminal Proceedings
22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that criminal (a) prosecution and (b) sentencing is applied consistently.
Courts and Prisons: Translation Services
14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in the (i) courts and (ii) prison system in the last financial year.
Sexual Offences: Asylum
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many asylum seekers have been prosecuted for sexual offences in the last year; and what proportion were housed in government-funded accommodation at the time.
Offenders: Deportation
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the deterrent effect of immediate deportation for foreign nationals convicted of criminal offences.
Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of providing legal aid to asylum seekers charged with criminal offences in the UK in the last year.
Prisoners' Release: Reoffenders
5 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released early under automatic release provisions have subsequently been reconvicted.