Home Office says it’s “despicable” to share sensitive data
Posted on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by Home Office WatchCategory: Departmental Administration
..not ours - theirs!
The Home Office’s top civil servant, Permanent Secretary Sir David Normington called in the police after 20 leaks occurred in two years.
Explaining his decision to contact Scotland Yard, he told the Home Affairs Committee that the person leaking Home Office information was “despicable and disloyal.”
The Evening Standard has the story:
“He said he was concerned about the damage the leaks were doing to the operation of the Home Office and about how close to the heart of the Home Office the leaker was. There were also worries about any links between the Home Office leaks and wider leaks of national security information across Whitehall.
“It was the knowledge that the person or people must have had access to the Home Secretary’s office and to her papers that gave us a great deal of concern that national security information was at risk,” he said.”
Unfortunately the Home Office is happy to share “registrable facts about individuals in the UK” because it’s “in the interests of national security“
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