Extradition
Home Department
Edward Davey (Shadow Secretary of State for Trade & Industry, Trade & Industry; Kingston and Surbiton, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many US citizens have been extradited from the UK since 1997; and how many UK citizens have been extradited from the US since 1997.
Tony McNulty (Minister of State, Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
Neither the UK or US keep a permanent central record of the nationalities of those extradited between the two countries, because both countries have always been prepared to consider the extradition of its own citizens.
Statistical information is only available since 1998.
The figures do not include Scotland and Northern Ireland who have devolved powers to make or grant requests.
| Total extradited (of all nationalities) to the US from England and Wales | |
| Number | |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 (to 21 July) | 11 |
| Note: The 2006 figure includes one person who is counted once but was returned to the US on two requests (both under the 1989 Act and 2003 Act for separate offences in two different States). | |
| Total extradited (of all nationalities) from the US to England and Wales: | |
| Number | |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2001 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2006 (to 21 July) | 1 |