Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British nationals were extradited from the UK to each other state party to the European Convention on Extradition under that Convention in each of the last five years; what allegations or offences each such person was extradited for; whether each such person was convicted of the extradition offence; if they were extradited for prosecution; and what sentences were imposed upon each.

The nationality of a person who is the subject of an extradition request was not centrally recorded until 2010. The table below sets out numbers of British nationals extradited under the European Convention for each calendar year since then, along with the offence for which each person’s extradition was requested, and whether they were accused or convicted of the offence prior to the request being made.

The Home Office is not routinely informed what sentence was imposed upon a person if extradited for prosecution.

The extradition to Spain mentioned below is included because the initial request for extradition was received prior to the entry into force of the
European Arrest Warrant on 1 January 2004. It took many years to conclude andhighlights the slow pace of extradition under this system as compared with the European Arrest Warrant.