questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national prisoners made a claim for asylum prior to being detained in the latest year for which data is available.
answerText: The Home Office does not publish data on the immigration status of foreign nationals held in prisons.The Home Office publishes data on asylum-related detainees in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on numbers of asylum-related det...
heading: Prisoners: Foreign Nationals