Oral Question·Ministry of Justice
“If she will make an assessment of the potential impact of deporting all foreign criminals on prison capacity.”
Tabled: 2 July 2025Answered: 8 July 2025
Asked by
Stuart Anderson
Conservative — South Shropshire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Justice
Answer from Hansard
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (Shabana Mahmood)
Removals under this Government have been higher over the past 12 months than under the Conservatives. We are going further by expanding the early removal scheme so that prisoners with no right to be in this country will be deported and banned from ever returning to the UK after serving 30% of their custodial sentence.