Question follow-through · 40011

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of foreign nationals from (a) Guinea-Bissau and (b) Portugal that have been convicted in the UK since 2010.

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
24 Mar 2025
Answer
28 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 20 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of foreign nationals from (a) Guinea-Bissau and (b) Portugal that have been convicted in the UK since 2010.

  2. 24 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice is unable to provide data on how many Bissau-Guinean nationals and Portuguese nationals have been convicted at court. This is because it is not possible to identify an offender's nationality from the centrally collated convictions ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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