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Urgent question on the WhatsApp data breach.

Lead member
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
Answering member
Margot James
Department
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Type
Urgent questions
Date
15 May 2019
Reference
660 cc235-243
House
House of Commons

When it comes to personal data theft, the Secretary of State said that

“the Leveson inquiry looked into everything in this area, and it was followed by three police investigations…We looked into these things as a society. We had a comprehensive Leveson inquiry.”—[Official Report, 1 March 2018; Vol. 636, c. 974.]

Will he tell me which of the inquiries and investigations that he says were comprehensive surfaced the evidence of the illegal data theft of the personal information of Dr David Kelly, who was very distressed when subsequently a journalist from The Sunday Times turned up unannounced at his home, just a week before he took his own life?

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Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
22 March 2018
Reference
638 c382
House
House of Commons

In his non-answer, the Secretary of State has shown that the previous inquiries were not comprehensive. There are still questions to answer, including allegations that at least one senior editor misled the first part of the Leveson inquiry and possibly even perjured himself. In caving in to the press barons, the Secretary of State betrays not just the victims of phone hacking but the promises of the previous Prime Minister. Will he at least have the decency today to admit that he was wrong to tell the House that previous inquiries were comprehensive and got to all the facts of criminal behaviour in our national newspapers?

Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
22 March 2018
Reference
638 c382
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether data losses have been reported to her Department by the security services as a result of computer hacking by media organisations in the last 12 months.

Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 March 2011
Reference
42235; 524 c871W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what discussions she has had with the mobile telephone industry to reduce the vulnerability to hacking of Bluetooth-enabled telephones and wireless headsets.

Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 April 2004
Reference
420 c1364W; 169237
House
House of Commons