Member

This would avoid the injustice of foreign offenders failing to be punished at all for their crimes and would incentivise the Secretary of State to work to conclude such arrangements with foreign countries. I appreciate that the Government will view proposed new subsection (1B) as particularly challenging to the objective of deporting the largest number of foreign offenders, because at present only a few foreign offenders are sent back through such prison transfer or similar arrangements. But we do not want the Government to lose sight of the importance of these arrangements, because they continue to offer the best way of implementing the various policy objectives at stake.