Arrest Warrants

(asked on 29th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many requests for arrests were made from police in England and Wales to judges in (1) Scotland, and (2) the rest of the United Kingdom, in (a) 2016–17; (b) 2017–18; and (c) 2018–19; and in how many such cases a delay resulted in a failure to arrest.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 11th February 2020

The Home Office does not hold records on applications for arrest warrants by police forces in any of the UK’s jurisdictions. These records may be held by individual police forces.

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