Letter to the Second Clerk of the Committee
from the Parliamentary Relations and Devolution Team, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office
FCO DEPARTMENTAL ANNUAL REPORT 2006-07
UKVISAS: REPORT
OF THE
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
When Peter Ricketts appeared before the Committee
on 26 June 2007, he promised to send the Committee a copy of the
report, when this became available, of the Independent investigation
into the breach of data security in the VFS online UK visa application
facility, operated through VFS websites in India, Nigeria and
Russia.
The report, and the government's responses to
the recommendations contained in the report were laid before Parliament
this morning. I enclose a copy of each of these documents.
At question 18 of your letter of 18 July you
also asked about an earlier breach of security. You will note
that this is covered in the report.
Richard Cooke
Parliamentary Relations Team
26 July 2007
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