§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the total number of foreign offenders imprisoned for each of the last five years; and if he will express the figures as a percentage of(a) the total number of prisoners and (b) the total number of foreign prisoners imprisoned for road traffic offences;
(2) if he will list, by country of origin, the total number of offenders imprisoned for road traffic offences for each of the last five years, who were using foreign-registered vehicles.
§ Dr. Douglas Hogg[pursuant to his reply, 5 February and 8 February 1988]It is regretted that the figures given in the reply were inaccurate. The correct information requested appears in the following table:
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Receptions under sentence1 into Prison Department establishments in England and Wales: by type of offence and citizenship, 1986 Number of persons Citizenship Motoring Other All British, British Overseas, British Dependent Territories, Commonwealth countries, Pakistan and the Republic of Ireland 10,010 74,910 84,920 Other Foreign nationalities 90 930 1,020 of which: Belgium/Luxembourg 1 — — France 1 — — German Federal Republic 13 — — Greece 3 — — Holland 1 — — Hungary 3 — — Italy 8 — — Poland 6 — — Spain 2 — — Other Europe 10 — —
Citizenship Motoring Other All United States of America 9 — — South Africa 3 — — Burma 2 — — Peoples' Republic of China 1 — — Iran 4 — — Israel 1 — — Turkey 5 — — USSR 1 — — Rest of the World 12 — — Not recorded 50 170 210 All 10,140 76,010 86,150 1Including fine defaulters. Based on records held centrally NN hich are approximate.