Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Immigration of 20 February 2023, Official Report, column 33, on what basis her Department determined that the freedom of information request on (a) the number of legal practitioners her Department is monitoring, (b) the nature of that monitoring, (c) when that monitoring began and (d) whether (i) her Department or (ii) a private firm was carrying out that monitoring was not in the public interest.

The consideration made was set out in the response to those Freedom of Information requests.