Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 20 July (HL2218), why the logo on the UK Home Office account on X is in the square format which identifies it as a Premium paid-for account, rather than the round format which is used to identify free verified government accounts, even though the Home Office has stated that is has neither paid for such an account nor received one for free from X.

At the time of previous responses, the Home Office Social Media Team understood that it held a standard verified government account and did not subscribe to, or pay for, X Premium.

Subsequent checks of the account's billing and subscription history have established that the Home Office does not pay for Premium services, but that the account has been provided with complimentary Premium status by X at no cost to the department because it is a government Department.