Home Office: Freedom of Information
Commons · Question 29239 · Tabled 11 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department’s procedures permit special advisers to require that a proposed response to a Freedom of Information request is not issued pending their agreement, and which ministerial or offi
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 21 Sep 2026
Special advisers may be consulted as part of the Home Office's handling of Freedom of Information requests. Where a case has been referred as part of the Department's internal processes, the response would not normally be issued until that stage of the pr...