§ Mr. HawkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what categories of representation may properly be considered in extradition appeals. [87633]
§ Mr. Bob Ainsworth[holding answer 17 December 2002]: The Extradition Act 1989 contains a number of statutory safeguards against surrender of which a fugitive can seek to avail himself before the courts. If no legal challenge is made, or if any that are made are unsuccessful, it falls to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to decide, in the exercise of residual discretion, whether to order surrender. In so deciding, he has regard
Persons aged under 18 convicted at all courts of offences of arson, England and Wales 1992–2001, by police force area Police force area 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Avon and Somerset 8 9 13 8 8 4 4 5 9 8 Bedfordshire 5 9 2 — 2 3 2 2 8 6 Cambridgeshire 7 8 5 2 3 5 4 3 7 7 Cheshire 6 8 19 15 10 13 10 16 7 8 Cleveland 8 8 6 8 7 8 5 3 4 11 Cumbria 8 6 2 3 5 5 5 16 13 12 Derbyshire 12 21 8 14 11 6 11 6 9 13 Devon and Cornwall 7 4 12 11 14 13 8 13 15 14 Dorset 5 4 8 9 10 — 4 5 9 9 Durham 21 15 23 11 12 26 14 14 16 18 Essex 12 11 13 16 14 13 24 11 9 19 Gloucestershire 2 2 1 2 2 5 7 4 7 3 Greater Manchester 10 25 23 18 18 15 12 34 47 35 Hampshire 6 6 17 24 11 9 15 23 23 29 Hertfordshire 5 7 4 10 10 5 4 4 10 6 Humberside 20 14 21 28 19 7 10 5 15 16 Kent 7 2 9 5 9 12 8 23 11 12 Lancashire 9 9 22 15 16 20 15 13 34 25 Leicestershire 4 7 11 22 8 17 22 22 14 9 Lincolnshire 5 6 8 5 2 5 9 8 7 9 London, City of — 1 — — — — — — — — Merseyside 5 10 10 11 8 8 12 12 10 16 Metropolitan Police 19 11 15 14 7 15 17 19 31 17 Norfolk 5 8 4 9 3 5 3 3 6 6 Northamptonshire 5 3 8 4 7 2 1 6 6 3 Northumbria 27 26 31 24 26 16 15 26 23 30 North Yorkshire 4 5 8 4 5 1 6 3 6 8 Nottinghamshire 21 17 21 23 15 15 16 27 17 29 South Yorkshire 11 6 12 9 15 26 14 25 25 14 Staffordshire1 14 9 23 15 8 13 10 12 * 19 Suffolk 2 5 11 1 5 5 7 6 10 10 Surrey 4 4 1 4 2 4 2 9 5 5 Sussex 6 10 4 4 5 9 5 8 8 13 Thames Valley 9 5 9 22 18 3 11 8 25 14 Warwickshire 8 2 1 4 2 4 2 1 3 West Mercia 17 10 11 7 6 6 4 20 14 14 West Midlands 28 25 31 30 16 30 22 33 27 35 West Yorkshire 28 32 36 20 22 48 37 33 39 41 Wiltshire 6 8 6 3 7 6 7 5 14 7 Dyfed Powys 1 4 5 3 10 8 7 5 9 2 Gwent 7 5 17 6 9 59 11 10 14 11 North Wales 8 4 11 10 2 5 4 4 2 10 South Wales 12 7 14 12 20 21 24 16 20 25 England and Wales 406 404 517 462 411 498 432 522 586 601 1 Staffordshire Police Force were only able to submit sample data for persons convicted in the magistrates' courts in 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.