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Deporting Foreign Offenders Prison Capacity 2025-07-08

2025-07-08

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Stuart Anderson Con
South Shropshire
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UK prisons are operating at full capacity with 12% of prison places occupied by foreign nationals.
UK prisons are at full capacity and 12% of prison places are occupied by foreign nationals. Will the Secretary of State look to deport all foreign nationals who commit offences in our country to free up that space?
Shabana Mahmood (The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)
We have already deported more people in the first year of this Government than was the case under the previous Government, so we are going faster on foreign national offender removals from our prison estate. The legal changes we are making will bring more offenders into scope earlier in their sentence, making them eligible for deportation.
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Deportation of all foreign nationals without specific conditions was not addressed
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