Arrest Warrants
Home Department
Menzies Campbell (North East Fife, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information on the implementation by the UK of the Council Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant and surrender procedures has been requested by the Council of the European Union since 2007.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The UK has been operating the European arrest warrant (EAW) since 2004. In 2006 the UK's implementation of the EAW was the subject of a peer evaluation by other EU member states and the Commission published reports in 2007 and 2010, to which the Government responded.
Additionally, there is an annual requirement on member states to provide the Council with numerical data on the operation of the EAW as both issuing and executing state.