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Information on the numbers of foreign national prisoners serving prison sentences in prison establishments in Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Scottish Executive and Northern Ireland Prison Service respectively.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Prisoners Release: Voting Rights
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether prisoners on (a) end of custody licence, (b) release on temporary licence and (c) home detention curfew are eligible to vote if registered. [164179]
Bridget Prentice: Prisoners who are “detained in a penal institution” are ineligible to vote in all UK elections.
Alcohol Dependency
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the incidence of serious alcohol dependency was among prisoners in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make it his policy to record the level of funding given for the provision of treatment and rehabilitation of people with an alcohol dependency within the criminal justice system. [164819]
Mr. Hanson: Data on the incidence of serious alcohol dependency are not recorded. Research carried out by the Office for National Statistics reported that 7 per cent. of those coming into prison had high treatment needs, which is a good indication of dependency.
Alcohol treatment and rehabilitation services for those with an alcohol dependency in prisons are in the main provided within the wider drug treatment framework. The proportion of funding specifically allocated for alcohol is not disaggregated.
Prisoners: Deportation
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to grant magistrates the power to deport foreign criminals. [163735]
Mr. Byrne: I have been asked to reply.
Magistrates already have the power to recommend foreign nationals for deportation under section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1971.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) with which countries the Government have concluded formal agreements for the return of foreign prisoners to serve a proportion of their sentence in their home country; [164809]
(2) what payments the Government have made to foreign countries for the transfer of foreign nationals imprisoned in the UK to serve the final part of their sentence in their home country. [164810]
Mr. Hanson: The United Kingdom is a party to two multi-party prisoner transfer agreements, the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, and the Commonwealth Scheme for the Transfer of Convicted Offenders. In addition, the United Kingdom has concluded a small number of bilateral prisoner transfer agreements. The following lists those countries and territories with which the United Kingdom has a prisoner transfer arrangement.
No payments have been made to foreign countries for the transfer of prisoners to serve the remainder of their sentence.
Countries and T erritories with which the United Kingdom has a Prisoner Transfer A greement
Albania
America
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territories
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dutch Antilies
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Georgia
Gibraltar
Germany
Greece
Grenada
Henderson, Ducie and Oeno
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malawi
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Montserrat
Montenegro
Morocco
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Norway
Panama
Peru
Peter I Island
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Queen Maud Land
Romania
Samoa
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Helena and Dependencies
Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
Venezuela.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with which foreign states the UK has arrangements for the return of prisoners to their home country to complete their prison sentences; how many nationals of such countries are currently in UK prisons; and how many prisoners the Government expect to be returned as a result of the arrangements in place. [163779]
Mr. Hanson: The countries and territories with which the United Kingdom has a prisoner transfer arrangement and the number of prisoners held in England and Wales from each of those countries are given in the following table.
In the Police and Justice Act 2006 the Government amended the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 to enable prisoners to be transferred without their consent where the relevant international agreement does not require it. Subject to the views of the other Governments concerned, the United Kingdom will, in the future, seek to negotiate prisoners transfer agreements which do not enable prisoner to prevent transfer by withholding their consent. However, each of the agreements listed below requires the consent of both states involved, as well as that of the prisoner concerned. As a consequence it is not possible to say how many prisoners will be transferred under these agreements in the future.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so although shown to the last individual, the figure may not be accurate to that level.
The figures in the following table relate to England and Wales only.
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