Reprimands · Central government
Secretary of State for the Home Department
No fineReprimands
Root cause
Other or unclassified
The published notice did not contain enough detail to classify a single root cause.
What happened
On 5 September 2021 an envelope containing four documents classified 'Official Sensitive' (the Documents) was found at a venue in London, by venue staff. On 6 September 2021, the venue staff handed the documents in to the police and the police subsequently handed them to the Home Office on the same day.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 7 October 2022. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.