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Mr. John Patten
[holding answer 16 February 1989]: The readily available information for extradition requests from England and Wales to foreign states, Commonwealth countries and (by police forces) to the Republic of Ireland is given in the following tables. Requests involving terrorist offences are specified where known. The Irish statistics are based mainly on information provided by police forces. Full details of reasons for refusals of requests in individual cases are not readily available; but the reasons include insufficient evidence, that the fugitive was a national of the requested state, and that the alleged offences were time-barred under the law of the requested state.
| Extradition requests to foreign states |
| Year |
Number of requests |
Number refused |
Country of refusal |
| 1979 |
4 |
|
|
| 1980 |
1 12 |
1 2 |
Netherlands Germany |
| 1981 |
1 13 |
|
|
| 1982 |
11 |
1 |
France |
| 1983 |
13 |
|
|
| 1984 |
21 |
1 |
Netherlands |
| 1985 |
16 |
2 |
Netherlands |
| 1986 |
15 |
1 |
France |
| 1987 |
27 |
2 |
France |
|
|
|
Austria |
| 1988 |
1 20 |
1 1 |
Belgium |
| 1 Includes one case involving terrorist offences |
| Extradition requests to Commonwealth countries |
|
Country of refusal |
Number of requested |
Number refused |
| 1979 |
New Zealand |
3 |
1 |
| 1980 |
|
2 |
— |
| 1981 |
Barbados |
3 |
1 |
| 1982 |
Sri Lanka |
5 |
1 |
| 1983 |
|
3 |
— |
| 1984 |
|
5 |
— |
| 1985 |
Zimbabwe |
6 |
1 |
| 1986 |
New Zealand |
6 |
2 |
| 1987 |
|
7 |
— |
| 1988 |
|
3 |
— |
| Extradition requests to Commonwealth countries |
|
Number of requests |
Number refused |
| 1979 |
53 |
1 |
| 1980 |
54 |
1 |
| 1981 |
43 |
2 |
| 1982 |
41 |
1 |
| 1983 |
31 |
— |
| 1984 |
29 |
— |
| 1985 |
23 |
— |
| 1986 |
112 |
11 |
| 1987 |
5 |
2 |
| 1988 |
28 |
11 |
| 1 Includes one case involving terrorist offences. |
| 2 Includes two cases involving terrorist offences. |