Question follow-through · 11868
Prisoners: Repatriation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals by the NI Prison Service have there been in each of the last five years to the Home Office for deportation of an offender and how many, each year, resulted in deportation.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals by the NI Prison Service have there been in each of the last five years to the Home Office for deportation of an offender and how many, each year, resulted in deportation.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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30 Jun 2026
Answer published
The information you have requested is not available from published statistics.All foreign nationals who receive a prison sentence in the UK are referred for deportation consideration at the earliest opportunity by the respective prison service. There has ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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