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100054

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the event of the United Kingdom not opting back into the provisions of the European Arrest Warrant, which member states still have on their statute books the legislation necessary to revert to the Council of Europe Convention on Extradition 1957.
	tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
	uin	HL2260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>All EU member states have ratified the 1957 Council of Europe Convention on Extradition (ECE). Consequently, they will all have legislation that allows them to operate the ECE with other ECE signatories who do not use the Arrest Warrant. However, a number of EU member states have subsequently passed specific legislation to implement the Arrest Warrant and would need to pass new domestic legislation in order to allow them to operate the ECE with the UK. In some cases, this could be a lengthy process. For example, we believe that it would take the Netherlands at least a year to pass the necessary legislation and during this time they would not be able to issue extradition requests to the UK, or respond to UK extradition requests. Effectively, this would make both countries a safe haven for each others’ criminals.<br><br>Under the 1957 European Convention on Extradition, 22 Member States may also refuse to extradite its own nationals which means that some people may never face justice. In non-European Arrest Warrant cases, the following EU Member States have an absolute bar on extraditing their own nationals to the UK:<br><br>Austria<br>Belgium<br>Czech Republic<br>Finland <br>France<br>Germany<br>Greece<br>Latvia<br>Luxembourg<br>Slovakia<br>Slovenia<br>Spain<br>Sweden<br><br>A further nine have made declarations to the 1957 European Convention on Extradition to the effect that they will not extradite their own nationals:<br><br>Bulgaria<br>Croatia<br>Cyprus<br>Estonia<br>Hungary<br>Lithuania<br>Poland<br>Portugal<br>Romania</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:19:37 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

101932

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) British nationals and (b) other people have been extradited from the UK under a European arrest warrant since sections 156 and 157 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 came into force.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	212695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text <p>More than 95% of people surrendered under an Arrest Warrant over the past five years have been foreign citizens. Since the reforms in section 21A of the Extradition Act 2003 came into force on 21 July 2014 no Arrest Warrants have been refused to be certified by the National Crime Agency for British nationals, and 21 Arrest Warrants have been refused to be certified for foreign nationals on thebasis of proportionality. <br>Given the estimated cost of £13,000 for processing an Arrest Warrant, savings in excess of £273,000 are likely to have been made to the taxpayer as a result of those refusals.<br><br>Since 21 July 2014 no Arrest Warrants have been discharged by the courts under charge and try provisions, as set out in section 156 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 which inserts section 12A into the Extradition Act 2003. Given this provision is a decision for the courts and has only been in force for three months, we expect that the position will change as individual cases are appealed to higher courts. <br><br>Since 21 July 2014, 15 British nationals and 287 foreign nationals have been surrendered from the UK to other Member States under an Arrest Warrant. The offences for which British nationals have been surrendered are as follows:<br><br>3 x Fraud<br>2 x Drug trafficking<br>2 x Grievous Bodily Harm <br>1 x Murder/Manslaughter <br>1 x Rape <br>1 x Serious Sexual Assault <br>1 x Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking <br>1 x Evasion of Duty - over £100,000 <br>1 x Fraud - over £100,000 <br>1 x Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm <br>1 x Drugs Offences</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 212692 212694 question first answered 13/11/2014 17:56:58 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25954 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

101934

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests each police force in England has made for European arrest warrants for the extradition of individuals elsewhere in the European Union for return to the UK since July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Sir Tony Baldry
	uin	212698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text <p><br>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, 48 Arrest Warrants have been issued on behalf of police forces in England. This breaks down as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Arrest Warrants issued to other Member States, by Force Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon &amp; Somerset</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon &amp; Cornwall</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Metropolitan</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>48</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures have been provided by the National Crime Agency and are not validated. It will be subject to further verification and end-of-year <br>validation and so may change.</p><p> </p><p>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, the National Crime Agency has refused to certify 59 Arrest Warrants. Of those, 21 Arrest Warrants have been refused on the basis that the person’s extradition would be disproportionate. This includes for non-payment of child maintenance and using forged banks note to the value of around 31 pounds to pay for goods in a shop. A further 38 Arrest Warrants because have been refused on the basis that they would obviously be refused by the courts for a failure to establish dual criminality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 212699 212700 question first answered 13/11/2014 17:58:57 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25924 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry

101935

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many European arrest warrant requests have been rejected since July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Sir Tony Baldry
	uin	212699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text <p><br>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, 48 Arrest Warrants have been issued on behalf of police forces in England. This breaks down as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Arrest Warrants issued to other Member States, by Force Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon &amp; Somerset</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon &amp; Cornwall</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Metropolitan</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>48</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures have been provided by the National Crime Agency and are not validated. It will be subject to further verification and end-of-year <br>validation and so may change.</p><p> </p><p>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, the National Crime Agency has refused to certify 59 Arrest Warrants. Of those, 21 Arrest Warrants have been refused on the basis that the person’s extradition would be disproportionate. This includes for non-payment of child maintenance and using forged banks note to the value of around 31 pounds to pay for goods in a shop. A further 38 Arrest Warrants because have been refused on the basis that they would obviously be refused by the courts for a failure to establish dual criminality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 212698 212700 question first answered 13/11/2014 17:58:57 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25925 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry

101946

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons European arrest warrants have been rejected since July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Sir Tony Baldry
	uin	212700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text <p><br>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, 48 Arrest Warrants have been issued on behalf of police forces in England. This breaks down as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Arrest Warrants issued to other Member States, by Force Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon &amp; Somerset</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon &amp; Cornwall</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Metropolitan</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London Police</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>48</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures have been provided by the National Crime Agency and are not validated. It will be subject to further verification and end-of-year <br>validation and so may change.</p><p> </p><p>Between 21 July 2014 and 31 October 2014, the National Crime Agency has refused to certify 59 Arrest Warrants. Of those, 21 Arrest Warrants have been refused on the basis that the person’s extradition would be disproportionate. This includes for non-payment of child maintenance and using forged banks note to the value of around 31 pounds to pay for goods in a shop. A further 38 Arrest Warrants because have been refused on the basis that they would obviously be refused by the courts for a failure to establish dual criminality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 212698 212699 question first answered 13/11/2014 17:58:57 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25926 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	93 label Biography information for Sir Tony Baldry

106000

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	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 may exclude any offences from the scope of the European Convention on Extradition that fall under the scope of the European Arrest Warrant and cannot be moved from that warrant's scope by the UK; and what offences the UK has so excluded.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	213180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Article 2(3) of the European Convention on Extradition allows a Contracting Party to exclude offences from the application of the Convention where its domestic law does not allow extradition for those offences. At the time of ratification in May 1991, the UK made two reservations concerning Article 2 of the Convention. One of these reserved the right to refuse extradition if it appears, in relation to the offence(s) in respect of which a person's return is sought, that by reason of its trivial nature, or because the accusation is not made in good faith in the interests of justice, extradition would in all the circumstances be unjust or oppressive. The UK has not made any further reservations or notifications concerning Article 2. <br><br>Other Contracting Parties may also exclude offences under Article 2(3), making this a less effective tool than the European Arrest Warrant for returning wanted British criminals to face justice. <br><br>Under the Convention, extradition takes longer and is more expensive than surrender under the European Arrest Warrant. It is also less effective as a Contracting Party may also refuse to extradite its own nationals under the Convention, which means that some people may never face justice. <br>In non-European Arrest Warrant cases, the following EU Member States havean absolute bar on extraditing their own nationals to the UK:<br><br>Austria<br>Belgium<br>Czech Republic<br>Finland <br>France<br>Germany<br>Greece<br>Latvia<br>Luxembourg<br>Slovakia<br>Slovenia<br>Spain<br>Sweden<br><br>A further nine have made declarations to the European Convention on Extradition to the effect that they will not extradite their own nationals:<br><br>Bulgaria<br>Croatia<br>Cyprus<br>Estonia<br>Hungary<br>Lithuania<br>Poland<br>Portugal<br>Romania</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/11/2014 16:44:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg