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Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign nationals there were in UK prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down by country of origin. [181708]

Mr. Hanson: At the end of September 2007, the latest date on which published data is available, there were 11,211 foreign national prisoners held in all prison establishments in England and Wales.

Information on the country of origin of individual prisoners is not available, and may not be the same as their nationality. The following table gives a breakdown by nationality of all foreign national prisoners in prison establishments in England and Wales. It is
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available quarterly as Table 5 within the population in custody monthly published tables at the following website:

The latest edition containing Table 5 is given at:

Comparable information for Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Prison Service.

For the proportion of total prisoners who are foreign nationals, Council of Europe data on foreign national prisoners held in other major western countries reveal much higher proportions, for example in Austria (43 per cent.), Spain (33 per cent.), Germany (28 per cent.) and France (21 per cent.) than the figure for England and Wales (14 per cent.), based on 2006 population data.

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.


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Population in prison by nationality and sex—England and Wales 30 September 2007
Nationality Male Female Total

All nationalities

76,439

4,416

80,855

UK nationals

65,387

3,338

68,725

Foreign nationals

10,223

988

11,211

Not recorded

829

90

919

Total Africa

2,874

439

3,313

Angola

80

6

86

Burundi

10

0

10

Benin

3

0

3

Botswana

2

0

2

Ivory Coast

26

1

27

Central African Republic

9

0

9

Congo

112

7

119

Cameroon, United Republic

36

2

38

Cape Verde

1

0

1

Algeria

190

2

192

Egypt

16

0

16

Ethiopia

39

1

40

Ghana

206

34

240

Gambia

40

4

44

Guinea

13

1

14

Equatorial Guinea

1

0

1

Guinea/Bissau

1

0

1

Kenya

66

12

78

Liberia

20

8

28

Lesotho

0

1

1

Libya

18

0

18

Morocco

43

1

44

Mali

2

0

2

Mauritania

2

1

3

Mauritius

16

1

17

Malawi

11

1

12

Mozambique

6

0

6

Namibia

4

1

5

Niger

6

0

6

Nigeria

873

226

1,098

St. Pierre And Miquelon

1

0

1

Rwanda

19

0

19

Sudan

44

2

46

Sierra Leone

75

9

84

Senegal

4

1

5

Somalia

369

10

379

Swaziland

1

0

1

Chad

1

0

1

Togo

8

2

10

Tunisia

21

0

21

Tanzania

16

1

17

Uganda

72

5

77

Western Sahara

1

0

1

South Africa

166

59

225

Zambia

15

3

18

Congo, Democratic Republic

35

0

35

Zimbabwe

172

38

211

Total Asia

1,903

114

2,017

Afghanistan

96

0

96

Bangladesh

160

4

164

Burma

5

0

5

China

313

36

349

Hong Kong

5

1

6

Indonesia

3

0

3

India

306

14

320

British Indian Ocean Territories

1

0

1

Japan

1

1

2

Cambodia

1

0

1

Korea, Republic of (South)

6

0

6

Sri Lanka

148

2

150

Mongolia

7

1

8

Malaysia

21

5

26

Philippines

16

4

20

Pakistan

402

10

412

Singapore

3

3

6

Thailand

4

3

7

Vietnam

404

31

434

Total Central and South America

292

41

333

Argentina

3

2

5

Bolivia

6

1

7

Brazil

65

9

74

Belize

1

0

1

Chile

9

1

10

Colombia

108

6

114

Costa Rica

3

0

3

Ecuador

9

1

10

French Guyana

2

0

2

Guatemala

3

0

3

Guyana

30

7

38

Honduras

1

0

1

Mexico

17

5

22

Panama

2

1

3

Peru

6

0

6

Paraguay

0

1

1

Surinam

9

1

10

El Salvador

0

2

2

Uruguay

1

0

1

Venezuela

16

4

20

Total Europe

2,943

218

3,162

Albania

173

1

174

Armenia

5

0

5

Austria

12

2

14

Azerbaijan

4

0

4

Bosnia-Herzegovina

7

0

7

Belgium

37

3

40

Bulgaria

18

15

33

Croatia

10

1

11

Switzerland

6

1

7

Czech Republic

49

5

54

Cyprus

50

2

52

Germany

119

12

131

Denmark

9

0

9

Estonia

19

3

22

Spain

61

12

72

Finland

2

1

3

France

137

15

152

Georgia

16

0

16

Gibraltar

2

0

2

Greece

15

5

20

Hungary

19

3

22

Irish Republic

618

34

651

Iceland

1

0

1

Italy

87

8

95

Kazakhstan

4

0

4

Kyrgyzstan

3

0

3

Lithuania

197

6

203

Latvia

57

2

59

Moldova

26

2

28

Macedonia

8

0

8

Serbia and Montenegro

90

2

92

Malta

6

0

6

Netherlands

99

19

118

Norway

5

0

5

Poland

342

20

362

Portugal

183

9

192

Romania

123

17

140

Sweden

11

4

15

Slovakia

18

2

20

San Marino

1

0

1

Slovenia

4

1

5

Russia

82

12

94

Turkey

202

1

203

Turkmenistan

2

0

2

Uzbekistan

3

0

3

Total Middle East

558

10

568

United Arab Emirates

8

0

8

Iran

200

7

207

Israel

23

0

23

Iraq

253

2

254

Jordan

7

0

7

Kuwait

11

0

11

Lebanon

23

1

24

Oman

1

0

1

Qatar

1

0

1

Saudi Arabia

12

0

12

Syrian Arab Republic

7

0

7

Yemen, Republic of

10

0

10

Total North America

119

12

131

Canada

19

6

25

United States of America

100

6

106

Total Oceania

49

2

51

Australia

24

2

26

Fiji

11

0

11

French Southern Territories

1

0

1

Kiribati

1

0

1

New Zealand

10

0

10

Papua New Guinea

2

0

2

Total other

13

0

13

West Indies

1,471

151

1,622

Anguilla

1

0

1

Netherlands Antilles

7

4

11

Barbados

32

3

35

Bermuda

4

0

4

Bahamas

5

0

5

Cuba

3

1

4

Dominica

12

1

13

Dominican Republic

8

3

11

Grenada

15

3

18

Haiti

1

0

1

Jamaica

1,225

102

1,357

St. Lucia

29

7

36

Montserrat

15

1

16

Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis

2

1

3

Trinidad and Tobago

69

23

92

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

11

3

14

Notes : 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.

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