Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 19 July 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with which countries the UK has extradition treaties; how many people were extradited (a) to each country from the UK and (b) to the UK from each country in the latest year for which figures are available.
I have been asked to reply.
The Extradition Act 2003 divides the UK's extradition partners into two categories. Part 1 territories are those EU member states who, like the UK, operate the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) procedure. These are:
Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; the Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; and Sweden
Part 2 territories include those Members of the Council of Europe who are not in the EU and are party to the European Convention on Extradition; Commonwealth territories; and bilateral extradition treaty partners, such as the United States. These are:
Albania; Andorra; Antigua and Barbuda; Armenia; Argentina; Australia; Azerbaijan; The Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei; Bulgaria; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Cook Islands; Croatia; Cuba; Dominica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Fiji; The Gambia; Georgia; Ghana; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Hong Kong Special Administrative Region *; Iceland; India; Iraq; Israel; Jamaica; Kenya; Kiribati; Lesotho; Liberia; Liechtenstein; the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mauritius; Mexico; Moldova; Monaco; Nauru; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Norway; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Romania; Russian Federation; Saint Christopher and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; San Marino; Serbia and Montenegro; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Swaziland; Switzerland; Tanzania; Thailand; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turkey; Tuvalu; Uganda; Ukraine; United States of America; Uruguay; Vanuatu; Western Samoa; Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In 2005, under the EAW procedure, the UK extradited 77 people to other EU member states and had 66 people returned to this country. Under part 2 of the 2003 Act, the UK extradited 62 people last year and had 11 people returned to this country.
This information is shown in the following table:
UK extradition statistics for 2005 | ||
Part 1 | ||
Country | Surrendered by UK | Returned to UK |
Austria | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | 8 | 1 |
Cyprus | 0 | 1 |
Czech Republic | 0 | 0 |
Denmark | 3 | 0 |
Estonia | 0 | 0 |
Finland | 2 | 0 |
France | 4 | 7 |
Germany | 8 | 6 |
Greece | 0 | 4 |
Hungary | 0 | 0 |
Ireland | 11 | 4 |
Italy | 0 | 1 |
Latvia | 0 | 1 |
Lithuania | 27 | 0 |
Luxembourg | 0 | 0 |
Malta | 0 | 0 |
Netherlands | 3 | 10 |
Poland | 4 | 0 |
Portugal | 3 | 1 |
Slovakia | 0 | 0 |
Slovenia | 0 | 0 |
Spain | 3 | 29 |
Sweden | 1 | 1 |
Part 2 | ||
Country | Surrendered by UK | Returned to UK |
Albania | 1 | 0 |
Australia | 2 | 0 |
Canada | 2 | 1 |
Cayman Islands | 0 | 1 |
Croatia | 1 | 0 |
Czech | 4 | 1 |
Republic(1) | ||
Estonia(1) | 1 | 0 |
France(1) | 6 | 0 |
Germany(1) | 7 | 1 |
Grenada | 1 | 0 |
Hungary(1) | 1 | 0 |
Italy(1) | 5 | 0 |
Jamaica | 0 | 2 |
Lithuania(1) | 3 | 0 |
Monaco | 1 | 0 |
Norway | 1 | 1 |
Poland(1) | 1 | 0 |
Portugal(1) | 1 | 0 |
Romania | 2 | 0 |
Serbia & Montenegro | 0 | 1 |
Slovakia(1) | 2 | 0 |
South Africa | 1 | 0 |
Spain(1) | 3 | 2 |
Switzerland | 1 | 0 |
Turkey | 1 | 0 |
USA | 14 | 1 |
(1 )Indicates an EU member state where all or some of the extradition requests were made/received before the date the State began operating the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant. |
Yes30 people think so
No4 people think not
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