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Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

Answer

The following table shows the number of foreign national prisoners of each nationality being held in prisons in England and Wales, as at 31 December 2011. These figures are published quarterly in table 1.6 of the 'Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletin' available at:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/prisons-and-probation/oms-quarterly"The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the number of prisoners who hold dual UK and other nationalities.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.

Population in prison, by nationality, 31 December 2011, England and Wales
Nationality	Total
All nationalities	86,172
British nationals	73,620
Foreign nationals	11,077
Nationality not recorded	1,475
Total Africa	2,537
Algeria	169
Angola	54
Benin	4
Botswana	1
Burkina Faso	1
Burundi	17
Cameroon	30
Central African Republic	15
Chad	2
Congo	125
Egypt	23
Equatorial Guinea	1
Ethiopia	68
Gabon	1
Gambia	52
Ghana	143
Guinea	15
Ivory Coast	29
Kenya	66
Liberia	22
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	21
Malawi	14
Mali	1
Mauritania	4
Mauritius	26
Morocco	61
Mozambique	2
Namibia	6
Niger	18
Nigeria	571
Rwanda	17
Senegal	7
Seychelles	3
Sierra Leone	77
Somalia	441
South Africa	98
Sudan	35
Tanzania	20
Togo	2
Tunisia	19
Uganda	54
Western Sahara	1
Zambia	22
Zimbabwe	179
Total Asia	2,247
Afghanistan	164
Bangladesh	250
Brunei Darussalam	1
China	219
Hong Kong	1
India	422
Indonesia	1
Japan	5
Korea, DPR (North Korea)	1
Korea, Republic of	4
Malaysia	26
Mongolia	2
Myanmar	3
Nepal	10
Pakistan	498
Philippines	19
Singapore	1
Sri Lanka	150
Taiwan (Nationalist Chinese)	3
Thailand	5
Vietnam	462
Total Central and South America	277
Argentina	3
Bolivia	10
Brazil	56
Chile	18
Colombia	68
Costa Rica	7
Ecuador	14
El Salvador	1
French Guiana	2
Guatemala	4
Guyana	26
Mexico	37
Nicaragua	2
Panama	1
Paraguay	1
Peru	6
Suriname	2
Venezuela	19
Total Europe	4,293
Albania	173
Armenia	6
Austria	12
Azerbaijan	5
Belgium	25
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13
Bulgaria	51
Croatia	11
Cyprus	32
Czech Republic	95
Denmark	13
Estonia	35
Finland	5
France	122
Georgia	9
Germany	83
Gibraltar	2
Greece	15
Hungary	46
Irish Republic	731
Italy	85
Kazakhstan	4
Latvia	221
Lithuania	434
Macedonia	7
Malta	3
Moldova	11
Netherlands	144
Norway	4
Poland	762
Portugal	230
Romania	436
Russian Federation	68
Serbia and Montenegro	43
Slovakia	78
Slovenia	1
Spain	81
Sweden	22
Switzerland	6
Turkey	131
Ukraine	35
Uzbekistan	3
Total North America	95
Canada	25
United States	70
Total Middle East	509
Iran	215
Iraq	197
Israel	36
Jordan	4
Kuwait	13
Lebanon	13
Qatar	1
Saudi Arabia	8
Syrian Arab Republic	13
United Arab Emirates	1
Yemen, Republic of	8
Total Oceania	30
Australia	18
Fiji	6
Kiribati	1
New Zealand	4
Samoa	1
Total West Indies	1,089
Antigua and Barbuda	3
Bahamas	5
Barbados	39
Bermuda	8
Cayman Islands	2
Cuba	5
Dominica	12
Dominican Republic	1
Grenada	14
Jamaica	885
Montserrat	12
Netherlands Antilles	2
St Kitts and Nevis	5
St Lucia	19
St Vincent and the Grenadines	15
Trinidad and Tobago	62

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

103800; 543 c685-8W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Foreign nationals Prisoners

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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