Mrs Anne Main – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Anne Main on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders from each other EU member state serving a custodial sentence in the UK in each of the last 10 years have been transferred to serve the remainder of their sentence in another EU member state.

Andrew Selous

It is right that foreign criminals who break our laws are properly punished but this shouldn’t be at the expense of the British taxpayer.

Since 2007, a total of 402 foreign national offenders have been transferred from England and Wales to other EU Member States to complete their sentence, 73 under the EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement

The table below shows the number transferred to complete their sentence in each year since 2007. The comparable information is not available for the prior years.

EU Member States	Year of transfer 2007	Year of transfer 2008	Year of transfer 2009	Year of transfer 2010	Year of transfer 2011	Year of transfer 2012	Year of transfer 2013	Year of transfer 2014	Year of transfer 2015
Austria				1						1
Belgium	10	5	1	2	1		2		3	24
Bulgaria									1	1
Croatia
Cyprus	2			1		1	1			5
Czech Republic			1	1	4	1	2		1	10
Denmark									1	1
Estonia
Finland
10 France	3	4	4			1	1			13
Germany	2		4		1				1	8
Greece					1			1	1	3
Hungary
Republic of Ireland	5	4	1			2	1			13
Italy	1					1		1	1	4
Latvia							1	2	2	5
Lithuania	1			4		3	2	1	1	12
Luxembourg			1							1
Malta							1			1
Netherlands	75	42	25	24	12	20	16	12	12	238
Poland	1	1		3	1	1	2	3	2	14
Portugal				2	1	1	1	1		6
Romania						1	1	5	7	14
Slovakia								3	9	12
Slovenia			1	1						2
Spain	2	3	1		2	2	2		2	14
Sweden

The numbers reported here are drawn from a case management system. Care is taken when processing these cases but the figures may be subject to inaccuracies associated with any recording system.

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