Email: Data Protection

Mr. Maude
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 24 January 2008, Official Report, column 2178W, on electronic mail, if he will place in the Library a copy of the sections of the Cabinet Office's protective security policy on the use of email.

Mr. Watson
For security reasons, it would not be appropriate to make public the precise internal security arrangements for Government Departments.

Security procedures for the use of electronic mail, along with other protective security measures, are based on the policy and procedures within the Government Manual of Protective Security (MPS).