David Lammy in legal fight to 'cover up' true scale of migrant crime rates

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David Lammy's Ministry of Justice is waging a legal battle to stop detailed migrant crime rates being made public.The MoJ is trying to overturn a ruling by the Information Commissioner (ICO), the information watchdog, which would lay bare the scale of foreign offending in England and Wales from 2018 to 2024.The Centre for Migration Control had filed a Freedom of Information request to uncover those figures, asking the department to publish the total number of convictions by nationality, broken down by those offences, for those seven years.The MoJ, however, said revealing the truth would be too expensive, and some of the figures would breach the privacy of some of those offenders.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Both of its arguments were shot down by the watchdog.Last night, Mr Lammy's department admitted to The Telegraph it was in the process of appealing the ICO's ruling.It is appealing to the General Regulatory Chamber, a first-tier tribunal which hears challenges against...

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