Undocumented Workers: Windrush Generation

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Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate how many fugitives each year would not be returned to the UK if the UK does not opt into the European Arrest Warrant.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 14th May 2014

I refer my Hon. Friend to page 27 of the Government response to the European
Scrutiny Committee Report of 7 November 2013.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmeuleg/978/978.pdf
The report includes numerous examples of people surrendered to the UK under an
EAW who would not have been extradited under the predecessor process. This is
the 1957 European Convention on Extradition (ECE), a much older and more
restrictive regime, which allows states to refuse the extradition of their
nationals, however grave the crimes for which they are requested; permits the
refusal to extradite for offences which are time-barred under the law of the
requested state; and has a bar on extradition for some tax offences.

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