Offences against Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people deported as a result of a conviction for involvement in a Pakistani heritage grooming gang benefited from her Department's Reintegration Programme.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
Any foreign national who commits serious crimes in our country should be in no doubt that we will do everything possible to ensure their deportation from the UK, so that they can no longer represent an ongoing risk to our communities or an ongoing burden to our taxpayers.
The specific information requested is not readily available from published statistics, and could only be obtained for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
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