Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Taylor of Holbeach on 30 June (WA 230), why the information requested could not be released because the number was under five.

The information could not be released as, in accordance with the Data protection Act, care needs to be taken to avoid the risk that any individual
could be identified from statistical information where the statistics contain low numbers, as in this case.

The actual figure has been replaced with "fewer than 5" as this is an appropriate figure, sufficiently large enough to render it impossible to identify any individuals.