Further correspondence from the Chair
of the Committee to John Yates QPM, Acting Deputy Commissioner,
Metropolitan Police
As you know, the Committee took oral evidence yesterday
from three mobile phone companies, Vodafone, O2 and Everything
Everywhere, in connection with its inquiry into phone hacking.
The companies told the Committee that in 2006 they
were given no formal notification as to whether or not they should
contact those customers identified as having received calls from
the suspect numbers and inform them that they might have been
the victims of voicemail hacking. My Committee would like to know
why this information was not given to the companies in 2006.
The companies also said that they had not subsequently
been given any information about the identities of those who had
been victims. We wish to know why this is so.
Finally, we wish to know why there has been no response
from the Metropolitan Police to the letters from Vodafone and
Everything Everywhere of November 2010 in which they responded
to DCS Williams's letter of 28 October seeking confirmation that
they had contacted their customers who were suspected victims.
I would be grateful to receive your response by noon
on Friday 24 June 2011.
15 June 2011
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