Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide to Rupert Burgess the documents he discussed with her.

The files in question are not owned by the Home Office, and so the department is not in a position to make decisions as to access. Officials are exploring this further with a view to directing the family to the appropriate body if possible.

Any authority in receipt of such a request for information will consider the request on its merits, according to their standard procedures, as the Home Office has.