To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress made to date in bringing into effect the Extradition Act 1989, and in the revised arrangements with other states which are parties to the European convention on extradition and its protocols.

The Extradition Act 1989 came into effect on 27 September 1989 and the United Kingdom ratified the European convention on extradition on 13 February 1991. It came into effect in the United Kingdom on 14 May 1991. The protocols to the convention have not been ratified.