Extradition: USA

(asked on 4th September 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the United States to the United Kingdom for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.


Answered by
Dan Jarvis Portrait
Dan Jarvis
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 24th September 2024

All figures are from local management information. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases. How many people were extradited from the United States to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003?

Year

Total number extradited

Total number extradited for non-violent offences

Total number extradited for violent offences

2003

2

1

1

2004

4

1

3

2005

1

1

0

2006

4

2

2

2007

6

3

3

2008

10

1

9

2009

7

1

6

2010

5

3

2

2011

5

1

4

2012

4

2

2

2013

4

0

4

2014

0

0

0

2015

2

0

2

2016

5

2

3

2017

2

0

2

2018

5

3

2

2019

3

0

3

2020

4

1

3

2021

7

3

4

2022

2

1

1

2023

6

3

3

2024*

5

2

3

* Figures until 5 September 2024. How many people were extradited to the United States for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003?

Year

Total number extradited

Total number extradited for non-violent offences

Total number extradited for violent offences

2003

6

6

0

2004

8

5

3

2005

14

11

3

2006

19

14

5

2007

9

8

1

2008

6

5

1

2009

16

13

3

2010

12

8

4

2011

8

6

2

2012

20

12

8

2013

11

9

2

2014

18

15

3

2015

6

5

1

2016

9

4

5

2017

9

7

2

2018

6

3

3

2019

13

9

4

2020

10

7

3

2021

7

4

3

2022

16

15

1

2023

30

29

1

2024*

6

4

2

* Figures until 5 September 2024. For the above two tables, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
  • Fraud
  • Drug related offences
  • Theft
  • Forgery
  • Money laundering
  • Handling stolen goods
  • Obtaining property by deception
  • Tax evasion
  • Unlicensed exporting of goods
  • Obstruction of justice
  • Bribery
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