Question follow-through · 54309
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are in (a) the community and (b) prison as of 31 March 2025, broken down by nationality.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Prisoners: Nationality · 11 Jun 2025
- Offenders: Foreign Nationals · 11 Jun 2025
- Offenders: Foreign Nationals · 9 Sept 2026
- Offenders: Deportation · 11 Sept 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are in (a) the community and (b) prison as of 31 March 2025, broken down by nationality.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) in prison and the number of Foreign National Offenders supervised by the Probation Service as part of its Offender Management Statistics Quarterly. For the pu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Prisoners: Nationality
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will provide a breakdown of offences by the nationality of the serving inmate.
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will provide a breakdown of the number of foreign national offenders supervised by the Probation Service by nationality.
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders were convicted of any criminal offence but not sentenced to prison, broken down by offence type, in the year ending June 2026.
Offenders: Deportation
11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders (a) are eligible for deportation under the Early Release Scheme and (b) have been deported.