Written Question·Home Office·UIN 196158

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

Tabled: 1 September 2023
Answered: 6 September 2023
Named Day

Question

Valerie Vaz

LabourWalsall and Bloxwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on foreign nationals convicted of attempted murder.

Answer

Robert Jenrick
This Government puts the rights of the British public before those of criminals, and we are clear that foreign criminals should be deported from the UK wherever it is legal and practical to do so.Under the UK Borders Act 2007, a deportation order must be ...

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