This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Brexit (31 October 2019): new US-UK extradition treaty, and new US-UK intergovernment agreement on extraterritoriality'.


 
 
 
 
Attorney General’s Office 
 
020 7271 2492 
5-8 The Sanctuary 
 
London 
www.gov.uk/ago 
SW1P 3JS 
 
Rachel Mawhood 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx 
by email only 
29 April 2019 
 
 
 
Freedom of Information request: FOI/99/19 
 
I am writing in response to the Freedom of Information request you submitted to this office dated 
12 April 2019, which is copied in bold below; 
 
I should be grateful to receive any information about the UK Government's timetable for 
and  progress on preparing and putting before Parliament - and FINALISING before 31 
October 2019 - 
 
(a)  a new US-UK  extradition treaty (as, post-Brexit, the existing US-EU Extradition Treaty 
will no longer apply) and 
 
(b) a new US-UK inter-government agreement on extraterritoriality (in the context of the 
US CLOUD Act 2018). 
 
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Yours sincerely 
  
 
FOI Officer 
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