Question follow-through · 28351

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders, sentenced to less than a year in prison, were in the community as at June 2026.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
14 Sept 2026
Answer
14 Sept 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders, sentenced to less than a year in prison, were in the community as at June 2026.

  2. 14 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) sentenced to less than a year in prison and living in the community is not available from published information.However, the latest published information shows that at the end of Q2 2026 there were 21,294 FN...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.

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