Anne-Marie Trevelyan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne-Marie Trevelyan on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2016 to Question 31329, on deportation: EU nationals, how many of the EEA foreign national offenders awaiting deportation are (a) in immigration removal centres, (b) in custody or other form of detention, (c) on bail and (d) living in the community.
James Brokenshire
Removals have been increasing year on year since 2010. In 2015, we removed 5,602 FNOs and over 29,000 foreign national offenders have been removed since 2010.
Our records indicate that as of December 2015, there were 4,217 EEA foreign national offenders awaiting deportation.
Of which:
2,748 are still serving a custodial sentence
A total of 302 are time served detained in immigration removal centres (IRC) and prisons. (242 in IRCs and 60 in prison)
1,167 are living in the community.
Of the above, for those detained and living in the community (1,469), the time since the end of their custodial sentence is as follows:
Less than one month 50
One to three months 84
Three to six months 58
Six to nine months 60
Nine to 12 months 49
One to two years 132
More than two years 80
No UK conviction or sentence end date not recorded 956
Total 1,469
(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) FNOs living in the community include those released by an Immigration Judge, those released by the Secretary of State and those with oversees convictions who may not have received a custodial sentence in the UK.
(3) The data provided is up to December 2015. This is not routinely published data. General protocol is that the figures should not breach the National Statistics, so we are not able to disclose figures that are for a later period than those that we have published. Published figures are available up to 31 December 2015.
