Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 20 December 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for how many British citizens his Department has made representations in foreign courts regarding extradition of foreign nationals to the UK for (a) sexual assault, (b) murder and (c) cases involving both sexual assault and murder in the last 10 years.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) hold statistics on the volume of British nationals who received Consular assistance from 2010 onwards. We have provided assistance to British nationals in the following number of cases since 2010:
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 (until 30/11/16) | |
Rape & sexual assaults | 276 | 276 | 305 | 270 | 253 | 281 | 261 |
Murder | 68 | 78 | 53 | 78 | 84 | 88 | 56 |
Extradition requests are taken forward through a formal legal process between states, which is led by the Home Office. We do not hold records of those cases in which the FCO has supported formal extradition requests.
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