Member

The Director of Public Prosecutions has written to the chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right honourable Member for Staffordshire Moorlands, Dame Karen Bradley, and the chair of the Justice Committee, my honourable friend the Member for Hammersmith and Chiswick, Andy Slaughter, about this case, and it is welcome that these facts have been set out. The DPP has made it clear that charges were brought in April 2024 based on the law as it stood at the time of the offences. The Deputy National Security Adviser—a senior official with very extensive experience in matters relating to national security—provided a witness statement in December 2023, under the previous Government. Further witness statements were requested and provided in February and July of this year.