Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time was between arrests for extradition and the surrender of people so arrested from the UK to EU15 countries in (a) 2003 and (b) 2017.
The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.
Statistics on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) are published by the National Crime Agency each year. These figures include a breakdown of the numbers of individuals extradited from the UK by country.
These figures are published at: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics
Prior to 2004, when the EAW was introduced, fewer than 60 individuals a year were extradited from the UK (this figure includes all countries, not just EU Member States).