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Extradition: UK and USA

My Lords, as ever, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. Could she   confirm that every country with an extradition arrangement with the US has a reciprocal arrangement, except for Ireland and France? However, Ireland and France have built into the treaty special provisions to balance that non-reciprocity relating to their own citizens and alleged offences committed primarily within those two countries. The noble Baroness has spoken of timing, speed of process and so forth, but the concern here is that the non-reciprocal basis has led to British citizens being vulnerable in a way that no other country’s citizens are.