PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Extradition: Homicide and Sexual Offences (15 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for how many British citizens his Department has made representations in foreign courts regarding extradition of foreign nationals to the UK for (a) sexual assault, (b) murder and (c) cases involving both sexual assault and murder in the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Ms Stella Creasy (Labour)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) hold statistics on the volume of British nationals who received Consular assistance from 2010 onwards. We have provided assistance to British nationals in the following number of cases since 2010:

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016 (until 30/11/16)
Rape & sexual assaults	276	276	305	270	253	281	261
Murder	68	78	53	78	84	88	56

Extradition requests are taken forward through a formal legal process between states, which is led by the Home Office. We do not hold records of those cases in which the FCO has supported formal extradition requests.

Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
20 December 2016