Foreign Nationals (Hansard, 14 April 1993)

§ Ms Ruddock
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals were held(a) on remand and (b) sentenced in each prison in March; what proportion of these were men; and how many came from (i) Nigeria, (ii) Ghana, (iii) other African countries, (iv) Columbia, (v) other South and Central American countries, (vi) India, (vii) Pakistan, (viii) Bangladesh, (ix) the Irish Republic, (x) the United States of America, (xi) the Netherlands, (xii) other European countries, (xiii) the middle east and (xiv) Jamaica.

§ Mr. Peter Lloyd
Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14 April 1993.
I have been asked to reply to your question about the numbers of unconvicted and sentenced men and women in our prisons broken down by nationality.
The latest available provisional figures are for 28 February and are given in the table, which has been placed in the Library.

§ Ms Ruddock
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals were in British prisons for drug-related offences in March; and what proportion this represents of all those in prison for drugs-related offences.

§ Mr. Peter Lloyd
Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the prison service. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14 April 1993.
I have been asked to reply to your question about foreign nationals in British prisons for drugs-related offences.
The latest available provisional figures are for 28 February and cover just over 90 per cent. of the prison population. On that date about 680 foreign nationals were recorded centrally as being under sentence for drugs offences in England and Wales, excluding any where drugs offences were not the principal offence. They accounted for 27 per cent. of the total population under sentence for drugs offences. The nationality of some further 70 prisoners under sentence for drugs offences was not recorded.