numbers of requests for comms data

[Martin Keegan]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Finally got a (not-very-helpful) reply from Bob Ainsworth via my MP about
> the numbers of requests for comms data:
> 
> "A wide range of public authorities request communications data. The Home
> office does not hold a record of the number of these requests.

The Mail on Sunday seemed to have actual figures on this about four weeks
ago. I can dig up the day the issue came out, if necessary.

Mk