Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by Metropolitan Police

You wrote to me on 19 January seeking the names of MPs and Peers that may have appeared within the Mulcaire notes and my office replied that we were unable to furnish your committee with that information.

Following on from our response, Tom Watson emailed me on 1 February 2012 to clarify the information your committee was seeking namely;

How many a) MPs and b) Peers were listed in the Mulcaire evidence.

I can confirm that there are 10 peers and 44 ex and current MPs that have been identified in the material analysed to date. Of this group, four peers and 14 MPs and ex-MPs are likely victims of phone hacking. All these individuals have been informed by Operation Weeting.

As you will appreciate, our enquiries continue and there is a possibility that further MPs and Peers may yet be identified and contacted. It is important, therefore, not to regard this information as definitive.

16 February 2012