Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications the Government made to the Department of Justice and Equality of the government of the Republic of Ireland seeking extradition of persons within that state's jurisdiction for alleged criminal offences not related to acts of terrorism within the UK from 1969 to 1998.

This information is not held centrally, but the information that is available covers 1973 and 1999 eight people in total were extradited to the UK from Ireland for terrorism offences and the UK made 110 extradition requests to Ireland in relation to terrorist offences. No information is available on how many requests were made for alleged criminal offences not related to acts of terrorism.