To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the remarks by Lord West of Spithead on 23 April (HL Deb, col. 1672), when he will write concerning the review of a Home Office document by a private company with commercial interests in the advice under consideration and the decision by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to give confidential police information regarding a protest to a private company with commercial interests in the matter. [HL5309]

The document referred to is a note that was produced by Home Officials in relation to targeted online advertising. The note was shared in draft with Phorm, one of the companies specialising in targeted online advertising systems, to ensure that the technical content was correct. The document and related correspondence have already been put into the public domain as a result of freedom of information requests. Contrary to media reports, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory reform did not pass confidential police information regarding a protest to a private company.