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Friday Volume 607 11 March 2016 No. 131 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Friday 11 March 2016 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2016 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 545 11 MARCH 2016 Foreign National Offenders 546 (Exclusion from the UK) Bill There are 10,442 foreign national prisoners in our House of Commons prisoners out of a total of 85,886—12% of the prison population. You will perhaps be surprised to learn, Friday 11 March 2016 Mr Speaker, that those 10,442 come not just from one, two, three, four, half a dozen or a dozen countries, but from some 160 countries from around the world. Indeed, The House met at half-past Nine o’clock 80% of the world’s nations are represented in our prisons. We are truly an internationally and culturally diverse PRAYERS nation, even in our imprisoned population. Very worryingly indeed, something like a third of them have been convicted of violent and sexual offences; a fifth have been convicted [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] of drugs offences; and others have been convicted of burglary, robbery, fraud and other serious crimes. Mr David Nuttall (Bury North) (Con): I beg to move, That the House sit in private. It is a good thing that the crimes have been detected, Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163), and the evidence has been gathered and these people are negatived. being punished for their offences. It is, however, completely wrong that the cost of that imprisonment should fall on British taxpayers, because these individuals—every single Foreign National Offenders (Exclusion last one of them—should be repatriated to secure detention from the UK) Bill in their country of origin, so that taxpayers from their Second Reading own countries can pay the bill for their incarceration and punishment.
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