Letter from the Culture, Media and Sport
Committee to Mr John Yates, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan
Police Service
Thank you for your continued assistance to the
Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry in relation to its
inquiry into Press standards, privacy and libel and for passing
to me your response to a Freedom of Information request regarding
the activities of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire.
The Committee discussed the information contained
in the response to the request at its meeting this week, and its
contents will be reflected in our Report. However, the Committee
has asked me to pass on to you our disappointment that you did
not share this information with us at the time you came before
the Committee to give oral evidence in September 2009.
That the Metropolitan Police should reveal more
precise information in answer to a Freedom of Information request
than to a Select Committee of the House of Commons is in our view
both regrettable and improper.
I would ask that you review your procedures
to ensure that such a situation does not occur again.
February 2010
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