Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of foreign national prisoners who did not have leave to remain in the UK prior to their imprisonment.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
In order to answer this question the UK Border Agency would need to cross reference individual records with the National Offender Management Service. This would incur a disproportionate cost.