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1674482

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign criminals have been extradited to the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	4729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office deals with extradition requests to and from territories outside of the European Union. The National Crime Agency holds the data in relation to requests between the UK and EU countries.</p><p>In respect of extraditions dealt with by the Home Office, the following table provides the information sought:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023 (to date)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No. of foreign nationals</strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office processes requests for extradition for individuals who have either been convicted or who are accused of a crime but have yet to proceed through a criminal trial.</p><p>All Home Office figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such, they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 12/12/2023 17:08:20 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1652573

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were extradited from the UK to another country to face trial in each year between 2019 and 2022.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL9299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>The number of persons extradited under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003 to face trial in another country in each year between 2019 and 2022 may be listed as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>On Accusation Warrants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All figures are from local management information. As such they should be treated as provisional and subject to change.</p><p>The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases. Only those surrendered on accusation warrants are included. The figures also do not include persons extradited to requesting states on the basis of a conviction warrant, as this assumes they will not be facing trial in the requested state on return.</p><p>Extraditions from the UK under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 are handled by the National Crime Agency and statistics are published on their website:</p><p>https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/how-we-work/providing-specialist-capabilities-for-law-enforcement/fugitives-and-international-crime/extradition-arrangements-with-eu-countries</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 26/07/2023 13:30:45 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1627722

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether any country has rejected a UK request for extradition, for reasons of the inadequacy of (1) the UK justice system, or (2) the UK prison conditions, within the past five years; and if so, which countries have done so, and on what grounds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
	uin	HL7841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2023 answer text <p>As a matter of long-standing Government policy, we do not comment on whether an extradition request has been made or received.</p><p>However, I can confirm that the UK makes every attempt to respond as fully as possible to requests for assurances in relation to matters such as those referenced by the Noble Lord when such requests are received in relation to extradition requests made to other countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/05/2023 13:31:47 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	3154 label Biography information for Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

1540200

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether UK citizens are entitled to ask the National Crime Agency whether any red notice has been attached to them by (a) a Gulf state and (b) another country.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	80900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>It is HMG’s long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny (NCND) the existence of an INTERPOL Red Notice or Diffusion against any named individual.</p><p>This is in order to support the functioning of our judicial processes. Working with the National Crime Agency, the UK Border Force ensures that relevant information is made available to front-line officers working at the border.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 80899 80901 question first answered 14/11/2022 13:59:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1540201

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK Border Agency monitors the number of Red Notices attached to UK citizens.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	80901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>It is HMG’s long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny (NCND) the existence of an INTERPOL Red Notice or Diffusion against any named individual.</p><p>This is in order to support the functioning of our judicial processes. Working with the National Crime Agency, the UK Border Force ensures that relevant information is made available to front-line officers working at the border.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 80899 80900 question first answered 14/11/2022 13:59:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1399148

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people's civil and political rights are not infringed by the Government's extradition arrangements with other countries.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	97153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The Extradition Act 2003 is the legislative framework which contains the safeguards and protections available in UK courts to all persons requested for extradition to any overseas jurisdiction.</p><p>A requested person will not be extradited if doing so would breach their human rights (including the right to a fair trial) if the request is politically motivated, or if they would be at risk of facing the death penalty. The court can also bar a person’s extradition if, according to a range of factors, including their health, it would not be in the interests of justice for the extradition to take place and can decide that it would be more appropriate to try the case in the UK than in the requesting state.</p><p>Additionally, a person cannot be surrendered if extradition would be disproportionate, or if they are likely to face long periods of pre-trial detention. These protections are also enshrined in our new extradition arrangements with the EU under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/01/2022 17:49:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1360689

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent abuse of the Interpol red notices system for political reasons by states abusing the human rights of (a) Uyghur people, (b) political opponents of the Russian Government, (c) human rights activists in China and (d) journalists.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	58353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports INTERPOL in its efforts to improve the safeguards it has in place to protect human rights and preclude interventions or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character. The Government views any allegation of misuse of INTERPOL’s systems very seriously and works closely with INTERPOL to ensure the legitimacy of the Red Notice system.</p><p>All Red Notices are subject to review by a multidisciplinary Notices and Diffusions Task Force in INTERPOL prior to publication to ensure legal compliance and prevent abuse of INTERPOL systems. In November 2019 the Home Office seconded a senior lawyer to INTERPOL to support the work of the Taskforce.</p><p>The UK is committed to the principle of non-refoulement and has repeatedly called on other countries to respect their obligations not to force persons to return to a country where there are substantial grounds for believing they would be in danger of being subjected to torture.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2021 16:52:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 27257 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1331608

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many UK citizens that have been arrested following extradition requests from other nations were extradited to the country of their arrest in each year since 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hay of Ballyore
	uin	HL945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>It may assist if the following is explained.</p><ul><li>The Home Office processes extradition requests from non-EU territories for individuals believed to be in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003.</li><li>The Crown Office &amp; Procurator Fiscal Service processes requests for individuals believed to be in Scotland.</li><li>The National Crime Agency processes extradition requests from EU Member States under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 and data relating to these requests is published annually on the NCA website.</li></ul><p>Thus, the arrest of an individual sought for extradition would take place in the territory to which a request has been sent. If extradition is to proceed, after the legal process has concluded, and extradition is to proceed, the individual will be extradited to the territory which made the request. As such, the question has been interpreted to reflect those provisions and the response relates only to those extradition requests received by the Home Office.</p><p>Twenty British nationals have been extradited to the requesting territory since 2018, eight of whom were dual nationals.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number extradited</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Territory</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of dual nationals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>USA, the Falkland Islands</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, USA</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>Albania, Antigua &amp; Barbuda, USA, Peru</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. As implied above, the figures do not include arrests made in Scotland.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/06/2021 15:19:22 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4352 label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore

1311267

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been extradited from the UK in each year since 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL15135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The following represents the number of people extradited from the UK under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>YEAR</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NUMBER</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021 (APRIL)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>68</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.</p><p>Extraditions from the UK under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 are handled by the National Crime Agency and statistics are published on their website:</p><p>https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/how-we-work/providing-specialist-capabilities-for-law-enforcement/fugitives-and-international-crime/european-arrest-warrants</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/04/2021 13:02:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1251946

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to expand the application of the Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Act 2020 to EU member states after 21 December 2020; what the timescale is for expanding the application of that legislation; what step she is taking to ensure that UK authorities have the power to arrest based on Interpol Red Notices issued by EU member states after 31 December 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	91962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2020 answer text <p>The Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Act 2020 (‘The Act’) provides UK law enforcement agencies with the power of arrest on an international arrest alert (typically in the form of an Interpol Notice) which has been certified by the National Crime Agency. The Act was amended at Third Reading in the House of Commons on 8 September to add EU Member States to the Schedule of countries within scope of this power.</p><p>The Act will be commenced at the end of the Transition Period and its provisions were drafted to allow commencement for the EU Member States only should it prove to be necessary and not if there is an agreement which provides for the continuation of a warrant-based system after 31 December.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 19/11/2020 11:55:57 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy