To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many complaints were lodged with the Information Commissioner in each month between January 2005 and November 2006 about the citing by the Office for National Statistics of Exemption 41 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to requests for the disclosure of extracts from the 1921 Census records for England and Wales. (113798)

The Commissioner’s Office has had three complaints relating to the 1921 census and the citing of section 41 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by the Office for National Statistics. These were received in May 2005, August 2005 and October 2006.