Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department has taken to prevent miscarriages of justice as a result of the UK-US extradition treaty.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK-US Extradition Treaty continues to produce tangible results, bringing justice to victims in both the UK and US. All individual extradition requests are subject to the Extradition Act 2003, which requires a UK judge to decide whether the requested person's extradition would be appropriate based on the safeguards and protections included in the Act. Extradition continues to be a vital tool in our fight against transnational crime. The US is one of our main extradition partners and it is in our national interest to have an effective extradition relationship.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with their US counterparts on the UK-US Extradition Treaty, in the context (i) the case of Anne Sacoolas and (ii) other prominent cases.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Extradition is a matter for the Home Office, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the courts. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has not had recent discussions with the US on the UK-US Extradition Treaty.
With regards to Anne Sacoolas, she has now been sentenced. We engaged frequently with the US on this case when it was ongoing: in 2022, it was raised at least seven times by FCDO ministers or senior officials with US counterparts.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2020 to Question 8948 on Tigray: Humanitarian Situation, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
Year | Total number extradited | Total number extradited for non-violent offences | Total number extradited for violent offences |
2018 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2023* | 3 | 1 | 2 |
* Figures until 24 February 2023
For the above table, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
These figures provide updates on previously published statistics for 2018. All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. 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.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 4 July 2019 to Question 271379 on Extradition: USA, how many people were extradited from the UK to the United States for non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
Year | Total number extradited | Total number extradited for non-violent offences | Total number extradited for violent offences |
2018 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
2019 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
2020 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
2021 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
2022 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
2023* | 1 | 1 | 0 |
* Figures until 23 February 2023
For the above two tables, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
These figures provide updates on previously published statistics for 2018 (table 1) and for 2018 and 2019 (table 2). All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. 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.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the UK to the US for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
To provide this information in the requested breakdown could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
To provide this information in the requested breakdown could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been extradited from the (a) UK to the US and (b) US to the UK in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Home Office’s response to Question 27510.
The table below provides a breakdown of extraditions between the UK and the US between 2022 and 2023 (Feb).
Year | UK to US | US to UK |
2022 | 16 | 2 |
2023* | 1 | 3 |
* Figures until 22 February 2023.
All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. 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.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been extradited from the (a) UK to the US and (b) US to the UK in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The table below provides a breakdown of extraditions between the UK and the US between 2003 and 2022 (June).
Year | UK to US | US to UK |
2003 | 6 | 2 |
2004 | 8 | 4 |
2005 | 14 | 1 |
2006 | 19 | 4 |
2007 | 9 | 6 |
2008 | 6 | 10 |
2009 | 16 | 7 |
2010 | 12 | 5 |
2011 | 8 | 5 |
2012 | 20 | 4 |
2013 | 11 | 4 |
2014 | 18 | 0 |
2015 | 6 | 2 |
2016 | 8 | 5 |
2017 | 9 | 2 |
2018 | 6 | 5 |
2019 | 10 | 3 |
2020 | 10 | 2 |
2021 | 7 | 7 |
2022 | 2 | 0 |
Figures until 30 June 2022.
These figures provide updates on previously provided statistics in respect of years 2006, 2015 and 2017. As previously stated, all figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published national statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in cases involving the extradition of a UK citizen to the United States where there is an outstanding judgment in the UK High Court, the Home Secretary is entitled to await such judgment before making a decision on extradition.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Extradition requests between the UK and the US are governed by Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003. This sets out the factors that the Home Secretary must consider before making a decision on an extradition request.
Under the Act, the Home Secretary may seek an extension from the court to the time permitted to consider a request.
Asked by: Lord Hay of Ballyore (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many UK citizens that have been arrested following extradition requests from other nations were extradited to the country of their arrest in each year since 2018.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
It may assist if the following is explained.
Thus, the arrest of an individual sought for extradition would take place in the territory to which a request has been sent. If extradition is to proceed, after the legal process has concluded, and extradition is to proceed, the individual will be extradited to the territory which made the request. As such, the question has been interpreted to reflect those provisions and the response relates only to those extradition requests received by the Home Office.
Twenty British nationals have been extradited to the requesting territory since 2018, eight of whom were dual nationals.
Year | Number extradited | Territory | Number of dual nationals |
2021 | 1 | India | N/A |
2020 | 6 | USA, the Falkland Islands | 3 |
2019 | 8 | Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, USA | 4 |
2018 | 5 | Albania, Antigua & Barbuda, USA, Peru | 1 |
All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. As implied above, the figures do not include arrests made in Scotland.