Speaker tells Commons he's ordered a review of security in Parliament as MPs question whether CCTV was put into Matt Hancock's office 'covertly'
Sir Lindsay Hoyle has ordered a review of parliamentary security amid growing concerns among MPs in the wake of Matt Hancock's resignation following the leaking of CCTV footage. The Commons Speaker said this afternoon that he had 'directed senior officials to consider what implications there are for security arrangements' in Parliament after the Whitehall leak. Sir Lindsay said that he will take any 'necessary steps with urgency' to boost security. Meanwhile, MPs questioned whether a camera in Mr Hancock's private office in the Department of Health and Social Care had been placed there 'covertly'. Junior Cabinet Office minister Julia Lopez insisted that was not the case and her understanding was 'it was a CCTV camera and it was not a covert device'. But MPs said 'the more we go into this the more odd it gets' as they warned it is 'totally unacceptable for private conversations' to be recorded. It came as Cabinet ministers