"League tables of migrant nationalities with highest crime rates opposed by civil servants

Ministers would present annual report of nationality, visa and asylum status of every offender convicted"

Telegraph: 12th May 2024: Report on further civil servant interference 

"Civil servants are trying to block plans for league tables of the migrant nationalities with the highest rates of crime.

The proposal, backed by 40 Tory MPs as an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, would require the crime rates of each nation’s migrants in England and Wales to be published annually...

...led by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick... would mirror an approach by... and Denmark, where league tables show the crime rates of those from... are far higher than those of Danish nationals. It is understood that Home Office ministers are in favour of the plan in principle as it would...

...However, civil servants have advised... Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, is likely to rule the amendment is not “in scope” for the Bill...

Backers of the league table plan believe... it would allow the Home Office to tighten screening of visas from countries with nationals linked to higher crime rates in the UK. A similar approach could be taken to asylum applications... and ...

...“We cannot hope to fix our immigration system without understanding the problem. The national debate on legal and illegal migration is hindered by a lack of data on the fiscal, economic and societal impacts of migration,” said Mr Jenrick"...

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