Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
Commons · Question 68061 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
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
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 21 Jul 2025
The 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...