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<p>All breaches of information are taken seriously and recorded by each individual
department. The Civil Service Management Code (4.2.1) states ‘Departments and agencies
must remind staff on appointment, retirement or resignation that they are bound by
the provisions of the criminal law, including the Official Secrets Acts, which protect
certain categories of official information, and by their duty of confidentiality owed
to the Crown as their former employer’.</p><p>Where a law has been broken or potentially
broken, it is reported to the police and they would take forward any investigation.
Subsequent actions would be a matter for the police and the courts.</p><p>Other than
in exceptional cases, when it is in the public interest, it has been the policy of
successive governments not to comment on breaches of security.</p><p><strong><strong></strong><br></strong></p>
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