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Extradition

Answer

Not all extradition requests lead to the arrest of the subject. As a matter of long-standing policy and practice, we will neither confirm nor deny whether an extradition request has been made or received until such time as a person is arrested in relation to the request, so that people do not have the opportunity to escape justice by leaving the country before they are arrested. For that reason, a breakdown of the number of arrests as well as surrenders by country is provided in the tables below.

2011
Country	Arrests	Surrenders
Albania	5	4
Argentina	2
Australia	2	2
Azerbaijan	1
Canada		2
Moldova	1
Montenegro	1
Norway	1	2
Russian Federation	3
Switzerland	1	2
Turkey	6	4
Ukraine	5
United Arab Emirates	7
USA	12	8
Total	47	24

2012 (up to 24 April)
Country	Arrests	Surrenders
Albania	2	3
Ghana	1
Russian Federation	2
Switzerland	1
Turkey	1	1
United Arab Emirates	1	1
USA	3	8
Total	11	13

The tables provide non-EU extradition figures for 2011 and for 2012 up until 24 April. Figures from 2004 to July 2011 were published in A Review of the United Kingdom’s Extradition Arrangements on 18 October 2011 and can be found on pages 464-467. The figures relate to requests dealt with under the 2003 Extradition Act. These do not include figures for Scotland. It should also be emphasised that an arrest and/or surrender made in a particular year may relate to a request made in a previous year.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

16956; 736 c447WA

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Extradition

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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