EXTRADITION BILL

Early day motion 301, tabled 5 December 2002 by Oliver Letwin (Conservative). Signed by 42 members.

That this House expresses its concerns at proposals in the Extradition Bill allowing British citizens to be extradited for offences that are not criminal in the UK; believes that extradition should only apply to serious offences to guard against thousands of individuals being sent abroad for very minor or trivial offences; further believes that the list of offences in the Bill that can give rise to extradition is too vague and too wide and includes unacceptably ambiguous offences such as computer related crime; and further believes that the passage of the Bill represents a serious and unwarranted attack on the civil liberties of all those resident in the United Kingdom.

Signatures by party: Conservative 40, Independent Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1.