The UK’s unfair extradition treaty with the United States has led to a massive and increasing imbalance between the numbers of citizens extradited from the two nations.

In the last 18 months, the US has extradited 24 people from the UK, while the UK has only extradited two.The imbalance is the worst since government records began in 1998, where the US extradited 7 individuals and the UK extradited 5.

Labour agreed an extradition treaty with the United States under which the US has to provide far less evidence for an extradition request from the UK than the UK has to provide to US authorities.

Labour then even ratified the treaty and brought it into UK law, while the Americans still have not ratified the treaty.

Source: Hansard 4 September 2006, PQ 89193 by Edward Davey

The official crime statistics issued by the Home Office, both the number of crimes recorded by the Police, and the British Crime Survey, are still fundamentally “not fit for purpose”.

A report shows that the Home Office still cannot be trusted with them, and says that the BCS should be run by the Office for National Statistics instead.

The Statistics Commission reported that “If we consider the different purposes that the public have for crime [statistics] then they are generally not fit for purpose.

The Commission said that neither survey data nor police-recorded crime are well understood by the public.

Source: statscom.org.uk (PDF)