Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether a direction to create a named system notification intended to cause access to be refused or security personnel to be contacted is treated by his Department as (a) a decision, (b) the implementation of a prior decision, or (c) neither; and what contemporaneous record is required of the directing authority, date, reasons, information relied upon, duration and review date.

Given that one of the hon. Member's constituents currently has ongoing legal proceedings against the Department regarding these matters, it would be inappropriate to provide a response to these questions at this time.