Policing & Justice FOI Tracker
What central government is asked about policing, courts, prisons and immigration — and how it answers.
An independent tracker and analysis of Freedom of Information releases from the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, courts, prisons, immigration enforcement and specialist policing bodies, built from GOV.UK's public FOI disclosure data.
2,996
FOI releases tracked
31
Organisations covered
10
Topics
27 Aug 2026
Latest release
Volume of FOI releases over time
20042026
Latest analysis
- The nine-month gap: what a stall in FOI disclosure logs looks like
Between January and September 2023, our policing & justice dataset recorded almost no new FOI releases at all. Then the backlog arrived in batches. Here's the pattern, from the data alone.
- Why 'policing FOI' here mostly isn't about your local police force
GOV.UK's FOI feed barely touches the 43 territorial police forces. Here's what central government FOI data about policing actually covers instead.
- Immigration and asylum is the single largest FOI topic we track — here's what's actually in it
153 FOI releases about immigration and asylum, almost all from the Home Office. What the questions people ask actually look like, and how that's shifted over two decades.
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