Lord Wallace of Saltaire – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 2015-10-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their current estimate of (1) how many British citizens are serving prison sentences in other European Union member states, and (2) the distribution of those prisoners across member states.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
We collect global detainee statistics twice a year. On 2 March 2015 we were aware of 807 British nationals detained (either pre- or post- sentencing) across EU member states. The distribution of British national detainees across Europe was:
|
Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania and Slovakia |
fewer than 5 each |
|
Belgium |
11 |
|
Bulgaria |
10 |
|
Cyprus |
7 |
|
Finland |
5 |
|
France |
104 |
|
Germany |
83 |
|
Greece |
12 |
|
Ireland |
222 |
|
Italy |
27 |
|
Malta |
11 |
|
The Netherlands |
16 |
|
Portugal |
31 |
|
Spain |
247 |
|
Sweden |
5 |
