§ Mr. Menzies CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will order an inquiry into the security of his Department's computer systems, following the recent incidents of computer hacking both in Britain and abroad;
(2) what assessment he or his Department has made of the vulnerability of his Department's computer systems to penetration by computer hackers.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe vulnerability of information held on MOD computers is being assessed as part of my Department's investigation of recent press reports of a hacker gaining access to highly classified information on MOD computers.