Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of restriction (a) notices and (b) orders her Department has issued to restrict inquiries under (i) section 19(1)(a) and (ii) section 19(1)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005 since 2016 (A) in total and (B) for the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Since 2016, the Secretary of State for the Home Department has not used the power to impose a restriction notice under section 19(2)(a) of the Inquiries Act 2005.

Under Section 19(2)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005, a restriction order may be imposed by the Chairman during the course of an Inquiry. The publication of a restriction order is a matter for the issuing Inquiry; independent from Government.