by Kurt Zindulka
The left-wing British government has launched an appeal against a ruling ordering the release of the crime rates of migrant groups in the UK, sparking accusations that Labour is seeking to prevent the public from knowing the truth about the impacts of immigration.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking to overturn a decision by the Information Commissioner requiring the government to publish crime rates by nationality between 2018 and 2024, The Telegraph reported.
This came after the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) submitted a Freedom of Information request for such data, amid a broader effort to increase transparency about the government-sponsored mass influx of foreigners into the country in recent decades.
The MoJ has argued that complying with the ruling could lead to the identification of some offenders and would represent a “disproportionate” cost to public finances. Both arguments were rejected by the Information Commissioner.
Director of Research for the Centre for Migration Control (CMC), Robert Bates, vowed to deploy “every available means” to compel the government to publish the data.
“It is clearly in the public interest for this information to be released,” he told the broadsheet. “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.”
The government has previously released partial data on the nationality of sex offences, which showed that foreign nationals accounted for 14.1 per cent of convictions in 2025.
However, the information released by the government failed to include the breakdown of offences committed, such as rape, grooming, or child sexual abuse. The data also did not include migrants who had become naturalised as British citizens, therefore likely undercounting the true impact of migration on crime rates.