To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders there are in the youth secure estate; and if she will provide a breakdown of those figures by offence type.

As of 30 November 2023, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 71 foreign nationals in the youth secure estate. A breakdown by offence type is given in the table below.

Table 1: Number of foreign national children and young people by offence group, 30 November 2023

Notes:

1. Offence Group is based on the individual’s most serious offence for their most precedent legal basis.

2. The symbol * is used for suppressed values of five or fewer, to prevent disclosure in accordance with data protection principles. Zero figures are not suppressed.

3. “Other” includes Arson, Breach of Bail, Breach of Conditional Discharge, Criminal Damage, Causing Death or Injury by Dangerous Driving, Fraud and Forgery, Motoring Offences, Non-domestic Burglary, Other, Public Order, Racially Aggravated, Theft and Handling Stolen Goods and Vehicle Theft / Unauthorised Taking.

Data Source: Further breakdown of youth custody data for November 2023.

Since 2010, we have removed over 55,000 foreign national offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community. Between January 2019 and September 2023, we returned 16,676 FNOs.