| no | date
| Subject | Comment
| qno | col.
|
| 1 | 3.12
| Security Service(Shapurji Saklavala)
| Policy not to confirm or deny whether the Security Service holds records on a particular person.
| 61649 | 251
|
| 2 | 3.12
| Operational matters (Police):
Personal Security Arrangements(General Pinochet)
| Personal security arrangements are an operational matter for Chief Officers of Police
| 62119 | 254
|
| | 1.2
| Transfer of Officers |
Transfer of officers between CID and uniform duties an operational matter for Chief Constables
| 68052 | 427
|
| | 9.2
| Costs in police operations(General Pinochet)
| Costs incurred in police operations relating to General Pinochet a matter for the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and the Chief Constable of Surrey: see also 10.2 [70252]
| 70282 | 143
|
| | 22.2
| Speed Cameras | Enforcement of road traffic law a matter for each chief police officer; they decide what technology to employ: and see 9.3 [73661, 73660]; 23.3 [77306;77290]; 20.4 [81599] (road traffic and public order legislation); 30.6 [88726]
| 71438 | 126
|
| | 23.3
| Suspension of Officers
(Cleveland)
| Suspension of Police Officers a matter for Chief Officer concerned: wrong for minister to comment while investigation under way
| 77266 | 173
|
| | 24.3
| Operational Deployment of Police
| Operational deployment of police officers a matter for the Chief Constable
| 77280 | 228
|
| | 18.1
| Police Protection |
Established Government practice not to disclose the actual cost of protecting an individual or the details of the security provided for reasons of security: and see 3.3 [74477] 15.6 [86751, 86750] 5.7 [88849] — but see 30.3 [79345] for partial unblock specifying amount of departmental contribution for protection of Senator Pinochet
| 66007 | 337
|
| | 10.2
| Allocation of resources
(Police)
| For Chief Constable to determine the number in his force within available resources: and see 5.3 [74826]; 9.2 [69473](maintaining reserves); 15.2 [71037]; 16.2 [71042]
| 70065 | 261
|
| | 11.6
| Witness protection |
Number of officers engaged on witness protection in Eltham withheld in order to help maintain operational effectiveness
| 86194 | 436
|
| 3 | 20.1
| Home Affairs Council
(Terrorist Threats)
| EU Terrorism Threat Assessment Document not to be released
| 66143 | 481
|
| 4 | 21.1
| Common Market Referendum
(Release of Security Service Files)
| For Director-General of Security Service to decide when to release files, following Public Records Acts 1958 and 1967
| 66396 | 553
|
| 5 | 4.2
| Special Advisers | Information on salaries and pay-bill costs of Special Advisers not provided in order to protect the privacy of the people concerned
| 69337 | 759
|
| 6 | 4.2
| Departmental Legislation
| Convention that legislative proposals for each year are not announced before the Queen's Speech at the start of the relevant Session
| 68420 | 750
|
| 7 | 11.215.2
| Police Authority
(Members)
(Legal Costs)
| Not practice to publish the names of those put forward for independent membership of police authoritiesFunding of legal costs of police officers entirely a matter for police authorities
| 70052
71427 | 321
514
|
| 8 | 15.2
| Requests from other Governments
(Louise Woodward)
| Policy not to comment on fact or substance of requests from other Governments for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
| 70572 | 507
|
| 9 | 1.3
| Security Service | Policy not to disclose information about Security Service operations
| 73407 | 568
|
| 10 | 3.3
| Official Advice
(Stephen Lawrence)
| Not practice to discuss advice to ministers from officials: and see 19.3 [76973]; 4.3 [73625]
| 74483 | 762
|
| 11 | 4.3
| Firearms Act 1968 |
Records of companies and individuals authorised to purchase &c prohibited weapons not available for reasons of security and commercial confidentiality
| 74251 | 853
|
| 12 | 11.3
| Immigration Records
(Pascal Lissouba)
| Not practice to disclose details of individuals' immigration records
| 76140 | 334
|
| 13 | 19.3
| Prison Visitors | Names of members of Boards of Visitors of Prisons not published for reasons of personal security
| 76417 | 830
|
| 14 | 25.3
| Interception of Communications
| Not policy and inconsistent with Interception of Communications Act 1985 to confirm or deny that warrant for or interception of communications has taken place; this includes revealing figures for interceptions in particular parts of the country
| 78524 | 385
|
| | 29.6
| | No details of reasons for issuing interception warrants given further than published in the Annual Report of the Commissioner appointed under the Interception of Communications Act 1985
| 88718;
88721 |
104 |
| 15 | 30.3
| Internal police inquiries:
Lancet Inquiry
| Operation Lancet inquiry supervised by the Police Complaints Authority—for them to monitor progress; length of the investigation for them and the investigating officer; no comment on criminal or disciplinary investigations, esp. because Home Secretary is appellate authority
| 79094,
79098,
79212
| 605 |
| | 13.4
| Redwood Inquiry | No comment while inquiry continues; and see 20.4 [81165], 4.5 [82537]
| 79590 | 11
|
| | 20.4
| Sergeant Virdi | No comment while inquiry continues
| 80631 | 489
|
| | 18.5
| Cleveland Police | Details of confidential matter discussed under s.100 of the Local Government Act not disclosed
| 84259 | 296
|
| 16 | 30.6
| Subversion | Not in public interest to add to information published in the 1998 booklet "MI5 The Security Service"
| 88224 | 186
|
| 17 | 22.7
| S.133 of Criminal Justice Act 1988
| Review of operation of the section internal and details withheld under exemption in Code of Practice on Government Information and Advice relating to internal discussion and advice
| 91828 | 620
|
| 18 | 11.11
| Commission for Racial Equality
| Details of individual settlements relating to claims of racial discrimination by employees of the CRE confidential between the parties
| 98369 | 799
|
| 19 | 11.11
| Siemens contract | Details of a package of changes to a contract commercially confidential
| 98242 | 800
|
