Anne Main – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne Main on 2016-03-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals of other EU members states have won appeals to prevent their deportation in each of the last 10 years.
James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of EEA foreign national offenders who have won their appeal against deportation over the last 10 years.
Calendar Year |
No of Appeals allowed |
2006 |
69 |
2007 |
40 |
2008 |
35 |
2009 |
49 |
2010 |
110 |
2011 |
121 |
2012 |
152 |
2013 |
130 |
2014 |
83 |
2015 |
59 |
Total |
852 |
(1) All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
(2) A foreign national offender (FNO) is someone who is not a British citizen and has been remanded in custody, convicted, and given a custodial sentence in the United Kingdom for any offence. An FNO can be convicted and have served their sentence while on remand, so may not have been sent to prison.
(3) Figures relate to main applicants only and exclude dependants.
(4) Figures relate to appeals lodged between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2015. Appeal outcomes may have been reached in the same or in subsequent years.
(5) Appeal Allowed figures only show the final appeal outcome and do not include any previous appeal outcomes for that individual case. They include those determined in both the Lower and Upper Tiers.
The table below shows the total number of EEA foreign national offenders removed over last the 10 years.
Calendar Year |
EEA FNO Removals |
2006 |
480 |
2007 |
523 |
2008 |
633 |
2009 |
748 |
2010 |
933 |
2011 |
1,147 |
2012 |
1,653 |
2013 |
2,121 |
2014 |
2,962 |
2015 |
3,310 |
(1) The figures quoted have been derived from management information from the Home Office databases and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
(2) A Foreign National Offender (FNO) is defined as an individual with a criminal case on the Home Office’s Case Information Database, and may include individuals with asylum cases.
(3) Total EEA FNO removals figures relate to those cases that have been deported, administratively removed or voluntarily departed from UK.