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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Inquiry finds MoD Afghan data breach was foreseeable failure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Report from the UK House of Commons Defence Committee committees.parliament.uk/work/9327/af... #Afghandatabreach #dataprotection #opengov

99. The government's caution also affected audit and regulatory scrutiny. For two years it failed to serve the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff at the National Audit Office so that they could exercise their audit responsibilities and work with the MOD to ensure the accounts fairly represented the financial consequences of the government's commitments under the injunction. The NAO has staff with high security clearance who scrutinise some of the most sensitive areas of MOD activity, including the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. The Information Commissioner's Office was also constrained, for different reasons: it lacked the clearances and systems needed to conduct a fully independent investigation into highly classified material.98 These issues show why exceptional secrecy requires planned mechanisms for controlled democratic, audit and regulatory challenge, not reliance on secrecy alone.