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Arrest Warrants

Volume 501: debated on Wednesday 2 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many European arrest warrants have been issued for arresting and bringing to the UK a suspect from each other EU country in each of the last five years. (301813)

[holding answer 26 November 2009]: The figures for the number of EAWs issued by UK prosecuting authorities and transmitted by the Serious Organised Crime Agency is as follows:

EAWs Issued

Persons extradited to the UK under the EAW

2004

96

19

2005

131

63

2006

126

76

2007

198

99

2008

218

96

It is not possible from current systems to provide data broken down into the number of EAWs issued by the UK to each member state. This would require a manual examination of all files and incur disproportionate cost.