Shadow Policing and Crime Minister Matt Vickers has questioned how the Government will take action on foreign criminals, after announcing they will publish "league tables" on those awaiting deportation.
The Home Office is set to reveal the nationalities of foreign criminals alongside their offences for the first time - showing countries of origin for people being prepared for deportation by the Government.
A Home Office release cited "heightened interest from parliamentarians, the media and members of the public" as justification for compiling the more detailed data.
A source for the Home Office said: "We want to ensure the public is kept better informed about the number of foreign criminals awaiting deportation, where they are from, and the crimes they have committed."
Matt Vickers has questioned Labour's next steps after announcing they will publish a 'league table' of foreign criminals in Britain
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Discussing the move on GB News, Shadow Policing and Crime Minister Matt Vickers welcomed the "progress" in sharing data, but questioned how Labour would "take it to another level" and act on the figures.
Vickers explained: "It's gone on forever, and the commitment is only to publish it by the end of the year, but it's progress. But the problem is, we all know the story that it's going to tell.
"We've seen some of the horrific figures with populations in prison, and how that compares to the population of these foreign national offenders. Horrendous situation, but we've got to take it another level. We've got to take it beyond what these stats are going to tell us and what we're actually going to do about it."
Highlighting one of the more "eye-watering" statistics released in recent months, Vickers stated that you are "30 times more likely to commit an offence that puts you in prison as an Albanian in this country, than you are as a normal British citizen."
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Albanians top the league table of the nationalities most likely to be arrested in the UK, Centre for Migration Control analysis saidGB NEWSHe added: "That is just barmy. That is bonkers and we've got to do something about it."
Calling for the Government to take further action, Vickers suggested: "It's all well and good putting this data out there, it's the right thing to do.
"The British people who pay their taxes, who pay for this, whose family members might be the victims of this crime, deserve to know that data, deserve to make informed decisions about the way that we handle immigration in this country. What are we going to do about it?
"It's there in black and white for all to see, and it's going to be there even more so for all to see these days. This data should have been published long ago."
Vickers told GB News that if you commit and offence in Britain, you should be 'sent home'
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Emphasising how data is readily available on migrants in hotels, in the NHS and housing, Vickers argued: "We talk about people in hotels, we talk about the cost of the NHS, we talk about the pressure on housing in this country. But then we look at these crime stats and they are eye-watering, they're horrific.
"What are the consequences of knowing that mass immigration has huge costs on this front, as well as every other front?"
Detailing Tory efforts to crack down on illegal migration, Vickers concluded: "We saw the Government bring forward its own border security bill, and we saw an amendment that said we should apply the Human Rights Act from cases that relate to immigration.
"So we saw the nutty outcome where someone said their son doesn't like foreign chicken nuggets, and despite being a criminal offender, got to stay in the country. In these cases, they infuriate the British public."
He added: "So we've put an amendment down. In this country, if you go and commit a criminal offence, you have to be convicted and face a sentence of more than a year in order to be deported. We said no, there's no discipline - if you come to this country and you commit an offence, you should be sent home."
