Ministerial involvement in court cases: FOI release
- Published
- 9 November 2023
- Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- 202300339792
- Date received
- 17 January 2023
- Date responded
- 6 February 2023
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
How many other court cases, along with your Ministers, involved yourselves with court cases?
Response
We have interpreted your request to mean how many undertakings had Scottish Ministers given in extradition cases where surrender was made conditional on the requested person being returned: i.e. the number of times Scottish Ministers have provided an undertaking to a foreign country that a foreign national would be returned to Scotland to stand trial, on the condition that if they were convicted, they would be returned to serve a sentence in the country to which that undertaking was given.
We have provided that information for the past five years, in the table below.
| Year | Number of Undertakings given |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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