Question follow-through · 4458
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals in Northern Ireland prisons, broken down by (a) nationality, (b) sentence status, (c) offence type and (d) immigration status.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 6 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
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals in Northern Ireland prisons, broken down by (a) nationality, (b) sentence status, (c) offence type and (d) immigration status.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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4 Jun 2026
Answer published
The management and operational delivery of prisons in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter and the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.The specific information you have requested regarding the foreign national prison population is not a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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