Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 4586

Prison Accommodation

Tabled: 9 September 2024

Answered: 17 September 2024

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales to prisons overseas.

Answer

Sir Nicholas Dakin

We have prisoner transfer agreements with over 100 countries which enable us to send foreign national offenders to serve the remainder of their prison sentence in their home country. We are reviewing the opportunities to strengthen or expand these arrange...

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