To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were made to his Department since 2005; how many requests were (a) agreed to and (b) refused in each of those years; how many refusals were subject to appeal to the Information Commissioner in each of those years; how many appeals were successful; if he will place in the Library copies of the material subsequently provided in each case; how much was spent by his Department opposing each appeal; which (i) consultants and (ii) law firms were employed by his Department in connection with each appeal; and if he will make a statement. (244830)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Justice (Mr. Wills) on 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 507W.