Question follow-through · 44030

Prisoners: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a target for the removal of foreign national offenders from prisons.

answeredHome Office

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Home Office
Tabled
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
14 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 3 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has a target for the removal of foreign national offenders from prisons.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    HMPPS (HM Prisons and Probation Service) are working closely with the Home Office to ensure the Early Removal Scheme process runs as efficiently as possible by driving up foreign national offender (FNO) returns directly from prison. Between 5 July 2024 an...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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