More Foreign Prisoners to Be Deported Under New Government Plans

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the foreign national inmates were costing the purse hundreds of thousands of pounds a year when they could be deported.

Alex Chalk, minister for defence procurement, speaks at Rosyth Dockyard on the Firth of Forth at Rosyth, Fife, on Jan. 24, 2023. Andrew Milligan/PA

More foreign prisoners are to be deported in a bid to ease pressure on Britain’s booming prison population.

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has already signalled plans to send fewer “low-level offenders” to prison, as he prepares to set out a range of reforms covering England and Wales later on Monday.