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Cabinet Office Assessment (Documents)

The security of information, whether electronic or on paper, clearly must be given higher priority by all organisations, both in the public and private sector—recent lapses have also occurred in banks and so on. Sir Edmund Burton was charged with looking at the problem that occurred in the Ministry of Defence when a laptop was left on the back seat of a car. Has my right hon. Friend seen a report from Sir Edmund Burton? Can lessons be learned from that? Can we have a discussion in this House about information assurance in its broader sense—not necessarily in terms of things that are covered by the Official Secrets Act—to convince us that a proper process, led by his Department, is under way that will comfort the public, who are concerned about how the Government handle data?