Charles Hymas – The Telegraph July 19, 2026
David Lammy (pictured above) is taking legal action to block publication of foreign nationals’ crime rates in England and Wales, provoking claims of a “cover-up”.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Information Commissioner that data revealing the full scale of foreign offending in England and Wales from 2018 to 2024 should be published.
The Centre for Migration Control (CMC), a think tank, asked the MoJ to reveal the total number of convictions broken down by nationality and offences for the seven years under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.
But the MoJ claims the cost of providing the information would be disproportionate and that some of the data could lead to the identification of individuals in breach of their rights to privacy if it was published. Both arguments were rejected by the information watchdog.
On Sunday night, opposition parties claimed that the MoJ’s actions amounted to a “cover up”.
Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, said: “Labour have consistently refused to publish sex crime data by nationality, even though we know migrants from some countries are much more likely to be convicted of rape and sexual assault.
“Why are they trying to appeal against releasing the data? Do Labour just want to cover up the truth about foreign national offenders?”
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s economics spokesman, said: “The cover-up continues. Successive Tory and Labour justice secretaries have refused to publish this basic information.
“A Reform government led by Nigel Farage would immediately blow the lid on what’s really happening and begin deporting these dangerous criminals.”
Robert Bates, CMC’s research director who submitted the FOI request more than a year ago, said he would use “every available means” to secure publication.
“It is clearly in the public interest for this information to be released,” he said. “It is astonishing that the Government is going to the courts in an effort to fight against such important transparency, and raises serious questions as to what they are hiding.”
Breakdown of data
The MoJ has published some conviction figures, previously reported by The Telegraph, showing overall numbers for all sexual offences but has not provided figures for individual crimes like rape, murder and arson since 2018.
They showed foreign nationals accounted for one in seven (14.1 per cent) of sexual offence convictions last year, based on data drawn from the Police National Computer.
The FOI request rejected by the MoJ sought a breakdown of the data within each broad offence category. This would reveal within sex offences the number of rapes, grooming and child sex abuse cases, while for violence against the person, it would show the number of murders, manslaughters and cases of grievous bodily harm.
It also sought specific offences from 2018 to 2024 under the broad categories of drug crimes, possession of weapons, robbery, theft and criminal damage.
The Information Commissioner rejected the MoJ’s claims that it would be a disproportionate cost to provide the data. “The Commissioner acknowledges that the request is wide in scope and involves the manipulation of a complex dataset,” his office said.
“However, complexity alone does not obviate the requirement to provide a properly evidenced estimate. In the absence of a coherent explanation of how the estimate [of cost] has been calculated, the Commissioner cannot conclude that the cost limit would be exceeded.”
The Information Commissioner also rejected claims that it would lead to identification as the MoJ could minimise that risk by removing any offence with fewer than five convictions.
He ruled that to comply with the law on freedom of information, the MoJ should “disclose the requested information to the complainant”.
The MoJ is, however, appealing to the general regulatory chamber, a first-tier tribunal which hears challenges against decisions by government regulators.
In a letter to Mr Timothy last week, Mr Lammy rejected his calls for the full data to be published. He said the MoJ already published a “range of statistical breakdowns” on foreign national offenders and kept publication options under “continuous review”.
An MoJ spokesman said it did not recognise claims of a cover-up. “We are in the process of appealing the ICO’s decision and we do not comment on live legal proceedings,” he added.
“A Reform government led by Nigel Farage would immediately blow the lid on what’s really happening and begin deporting these dangerous criminals.”
And leave all the rest…
“They showed foreign nationals accounted for one in seven (14.1 per cent) of sexual offence convictions last year, based on data drawn from the Police National Computer.”
Meaningless. They don’t arrest the foreigners unless they absolutely have to, so they aren’t even in those “numbers”. And anyway, you’re taking “data” from the enemy so it’s hardly likely to be true is it? Also, this is the “it’s only X number of rapes out of Y number of invaders” argument, designed to keep the invasion going. Not that anyone is going to stop it, including “reform”.
I wonder if anyone here reads Icke’s page? Every day he has a dozen or more “articles” that all contradict each other. I thought of it because of the above. Today, he has an “article” about one boy who says he was raped by whites. So he’s trying to make out all the rapes are done by whites. Of course, he also has an “article” about everyone being in a test tube on the moon and another about how global warming is real, so it doesn’t really matter. Which is more pathetic: Icke or Jones?
Lammy is out of the new Andy Burnham ministerial cabinet.
But the MoJ claims the cost of providing the information would be disproportionate and that some of the data could lead to the identification of individuals in breach of their rights to privacy if it was published.
This is nonsense because people accused of criminal offences in this country are tried in open court, (except in exceptional circumstances) and the press is usually free to publish the name and address of any offender found guilty. So there has never been any right for any convicted criminal to keep their identity secret or “private”.
surely all coloured tribes look for their own folk
specialy when they see how split + divided the
white folks are everywhere . reason is white folks
already were suppressed by aristocrate + class structures
(this called civilisation) while only from now on those
tribes will build up their class structures with
oppression mixed with some criminal talmudist moral .
In Germany it not long ago the press reports on crime ommitted to mention the nationality of the criminal if he was an invader, and stated “German” if he was indeed a German and if he was an invader who was given the German passport as a gift by the traitorous government.
Lammy covering for his own..
lying, self-enriching 3rd class turds…pull the chain on the shitskins
Of course the shaved ape Lammy is “fighting to cover up foreigners crimes” since that knuckle-dragging nigger and his family are representative of the invading hordes of Orcs and criminal foreigners. The case could be made that Lammy is even worse than the average nigger with a knife or a street-shitting rapist as their victim count is quite low compared to the damage Lammy has done.
Word is Lammy’s parents were from Guyana, another place that should be a tropical seaside paradise but is instead a shit-hole due to the number of less-than-worthless niggers there, whose attitudes and behaviors are similar to Haitians, just not quite as bat-shit retarded and rabid as Haitians. Of course, like Haiti, the niggers in Guyana were imported there from Africa and it went to shit due to it.
“Send them home” some say or scribble. Ever asked that “patriotic British mind” where home is (for YOU and them) and who belongs to “where”. Where is Lammy’s home? Where he was born or where “others” built his career in Come On Wealth pollyticks just like the other paid mob that does the same and rules YOU from above? Those born in “Britstain” ARE YOU HOME or do you feel at home – at all?
Isn’t it time to get off your patriotic arses and build one (a home) instead of listening about those who never were at home in Ingurland but make YOUR pollyticks since centuries?
Why is ALL mankind so pathetic and addicted to everything that diverts their own attention?
Home is where your heart is they say! Have YOU got either or is it just an huuuuge ego of your own stuck eternally where the sun don’t shine.
Ever heard the song: “Swinging in the rain?” No? Butt, there was (a) Guy who once left a mask as legacy after he was “swinging” too some 400 years ago in Pommyland and all went awfully quiet after that!
Well that Shitskin is out.. But more kike stooges are in..
Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose..
Cabinet Ministers
Position Minister
Chancellor John Healey
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting
There you go, Israel controlling foreign policy again thru that rubber faced polack Cunt Jew millibrain
Tod dem juden
Burnham…
sounds like a thick low IQ Northern fuckwit…
Because, he IS a thick low IQ Northern fuckwit!
I’m surprised that fatfck Lammy wasn’t recuited by Ingerrlund for the World Cup and just parked in front of goal as the impenetrable defensive “bus” 😅