Oral QuestionMinistry of Justice

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 22 January 2025Answered: 28 January 2025

Asked by

Richard Tice

Reform UKBoston and Skegness

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Justice

Answer from Hansard

Shabana Mahmood

I agree that we need to do everything we can to remove foreign national offenders from our prisons. Between 5 July 2024 and 4 January 2025, 2,580 foreign national offenders were returned—a 23% increase on the same period in the previous year—and we are currently on track to remove more foreign national offenders this year than at any time in recent years.