Adam Afriyie
Chair, Members' Expenses Committee, Chair, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European Arrest Warrant requests levied against British citizens have been refused in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
Adam Afriyie
Chair, Members' Expenses Committee, Chair, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of European Arrest Warrant requests made against UK citizens by other countries were refused in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
Karen Bradley
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
In the financial year 2013-14, ten Arrest Warrants from Member States for British nationals were refused by the courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Information is not held for the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Financial year 2013-14 | |
Final court decisions on Arrest Warrants issued by Member States for the surrender of British Nationals | 46 |
Arrest Warrants for British nationals that were refused by the court | 10 |
Arrest Warrant for British nationals refused as a proportion of total of final court decisions. | 22% |
Of the total number of surrenders from England, Wales and Northern Ireland between April 2009 and March 2014, over 95% (4,855 of 5,072) of people surrendered were foreign nationals and just over 4.3% (217 of 5,072) were British nationals. By way of comparison, in non-Arrest Warrant cases over a similar period 40% of those extradited have been British nationals.
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