Written Question·Home Office·UIN 68061
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025
Named DayQuestion
Nick Timothy
Conservative — West Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of foreign nationals in prisons who are (a) illegal immigrants and (b) asylum seekers since 2019, broken down by (i) year, (ii) nationality and (iii
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and could only be obtained for the purpose of answering this question through a manual search of case files, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.Work is...
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