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, whether she has instructed the deportation of any nationals of other EU member states on public protection grounds in each of the last five years.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office seeks to deport EEA nationals or their family members on grounds of public policy or public security where that person’s conduct repre-sents a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society.
The table below shows the number of EEA nationals deported on the basis of a criminal conviction, where their presence in the UK is not considered conducive to the public good.
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Year |
EEA FNO Removals (1)(2)(3) |
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2011/12 |
1,275 |
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2012/13 |
1,727 |
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2013/14 |
2,306 |
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2014/15 |
3,026 |
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2015/16 (up to end of Q3) |
2,584 |
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(1) 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. |
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(2) Quarterly Foreign National Offender (FNO) removals are published as National Statistics and available in table 7 of latest the published "Immigration Statistics release" https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015 |
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(3) Total FNO removals figures relate to those cases that have been deported, administratively removed or voluntarily departed from UK. |
