Civil servants in Britain are reportedly trying to block the publication of an annual report containing the nationalities of those convicted of crime in England and Wales.
A faction of governing Conservative lawmakers wants to amend the Criminal Justice Bill to require migrant crime stats to be published every year, but The Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday that senior civil servants within the Home Office have “advised that Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, is likely to rule the amendment is not ‘in scope’ for the Bill.”
The Conservative government could still insist on migrant crime stats being released, but any successive administration would not be legally required to follow suit.
“If civil servants are unable, or unwilling, to introduce measures that would improve the security of Britain’s borders, they should find themselves another job,” tweeted the Center for Migration Control, a think tank committed to reducing immigration.
The Legatum Institute also berated the thwarting of the plans by the civil service, calling on the government “to reduce migration and restore trust in Britain’s beleaguered immigration system.”
Unlike many other countries including France, Denmark, and the United States, migrant crime stats by nationality are not currently available in Britain.
A Freedom of Information request to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in October last year for this data received the following reply, “Unfortunately we do not hold the information you have requested. Our data is primarily focused on victims of crime. We do not have details on the perpetrators of crimes.”
There is very little data available in Britain to show the effect that mass immigration has had on crime stats. Government figures from 2022 revealed that 12 percent of the U.K.’s prison population comprised “Black, Black British, Caribbean or African” convicts, despite these ethnicities making up just 4.2 percent of Britain’s population.
Similarly, 8 percent of convicts are of Asian ethnicity despite comprising 3 percent of the population per the 2021 Census.
The figures suggest a similar trend as seen in many European countries where crime stats by nationality are readily available and show that migrants are disproportionately represented.
In 2022, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin acknowledged that 48 percent of criminal acts in France’s biggest city, Paris, were committed by foreigners, while they accounted for 55 percent of crimes in Marseille and 39 percent in Lyon.
In Denmark, the government publishes crime stats by nationality, which show that migrants from Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Somalia dominate the league tables for violent crime conviction rates. Nationals from these countries were eight times more likely to be convicted of violent crimes than Danes.
In Germany, crime stats are published by each federal state, which this year showed an increasing migrant population had contributed significantly to a spike in crime.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, 80 percent of all pickpockets were non-Germans, and almost half of all shoplifting offenses, burglaries, and robberies were committed by foreigners despite comprising 15.6 percent of the state’s population.
Similarly in Bavaria, 40 percent of suspects of all criminal offenses last year were non-Germans amid a dramatic spike in thefts, burglaries, violent crime, and sexual assaults.
Knife crime across the country also soared by 30 percent last year, and more than half of the suspects were foreigners.
