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Offenders: Foreign Nationals

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 28 April 2026UIN 127258

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of recorded sexual offences and violent offences against women in the Great Yarmouth local authority area in each of the last five years involved suspects who were foreign nationals, broken down by offence type and immigration status at the time of arrest.

Answered by Alex Norris

The Home Office collects and publishes recorded crime statistics from police forces in England and Wales including on sexual offences and violence against the person offences, broken down by year, and Community Safety Partnership (CSP) area, including for Great Yarmouth. These are routinely published as official statistics and can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/police-recorded-crime-and-outcomes-open-data-tables

The police recorded crime series does not include data on the nationality and immigration status of suspects.

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