European Arrest Warrants

(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
(Conservative - Esher and Walton)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for the surrender of an individual under a European arrest warrant were received by the Serious Organised Crime Agency from each EU member state in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13, (e) 2013-14 and (f) since April 2014.

Answered by
Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

The Serious Organised Crime Agency was replaced by the National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013. It receives Arrest Warrant requests from other EU member states on behalf of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This table shows how many requests for the surrender of an individual under the Arrest Warrant were received from each EU member state in each financial year. Validated figures from April 2014 are not available.

Arrest Warrants requests received by UK from

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

Total

Austria

29

65

85

111

159

449

Belgium

88

293

358

376

476

1,591

Bulgaria

40

121

67

93

191

512

Croatia

261

261

Cyprus

7

12

10

25

29

83

Czech Republic

119

267

203

182

229

1,000

Denmark

3

4

11

8

13

39

Estonia

6

7

4

2

12

31

Finland

6

8

22

14

9

59

France

102

186

319

422

372

1,401

Germany

231

772

737

672

1,087

3,499

Greece

22

27

42

78

101

270

Hungary

67

270

195

201

387

1,120

Ireland

38

30

44

51

43

206

Italy

98

209

226

332

314

1,179

Latvia

52

100

86

115

161

514

Lithuania

171

193

230

233

236

1,063

Luxembourg

1

1

10

8

17

37

Malta

2

7

9

4

5

27

Netherlands

107

316

340

268

204

1,235

Poland

2,238

1,871

1,455

1,664

1,824

9,052

Portugal

18

27

61

88

73

267

Romania

193

561

567

680

1,015

3,016

Slovakia

54

101

119

99

146

519

Slovenia

6

14

24

35

79

158

Spain

161

254

318

408

351

1,492

Sweden

11

54

96

94

86

341

Total

3,870

5,770

5,638

6,263

7,880

29,421

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