Cash paid out to foreign criminals

Dear Sir or Madam,

following your removal of at least 5,000 convicted foreign
criminals from the UK over the past year what is the total cash sum
paid out to these 5,000 criminals in the last year?

Yours faithfully,

Mr Watts

Dear Freedom Of Information Team ( IND ),

This request is overdue. You should have replied by 28th January
2009, by not doing so you are breaking the law.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Watts

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of UK Border Agency's
handling of my FOI request 'Cash paid out to foreign criminals'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ca...

Yours sincerely,

Mr Watts

Dear Cowan Caroline,

http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/advice...

The Facilitated Returns Scheme, launched in October 2006, provides
incentives to foreign nationals to return to their country of
origin. Only the £43 discharge grant will be paid in cash and the
rest is given in the form of training or business start-up costs
once the individual has returned home.

OK !question still stands what is the cost since October 2006 eg.
business start-up costs for one; it's not just £43, what about air
fares too?

Yours sincerely,

Mr Watts

Dear Goddard Sarah,

the singular most important quality information must have is
"timely" - I'm not happy about the length of time this took to get
nowhere but still what good would complaining do? Instead I'll vote
with everyone else to massively reduce our Public Sector to bare
bones, then perhaps after a spell working as private sector
employees do, constant progress to do more with less perhaps we'll
have a fit an able Public Sector suitable for the tasks in hand.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Watts