Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she first sought advice from officials on her powers to carry out a review of the report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.

The murder of Daniel Morgan is a tragedy for which no one has been successfully convicted after 34 years. To seek answers, the then Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP, announced in 2013 that the Government was setting up the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel (DMIP) to review police handling of the murder investigation.

The remit of the Panel was to shine a light on the circumstances of Daniel Morgan’s murder, its background and the handling of the case over the period since 1987.

Over the past 8 years, the panel have conducted a thorough and extensive review of the relevant documentation, and the final report was published by the Home Secretary in Parliament on 15th June 2021.

The terms of reference for the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel made it clear that the Chair of the Panel was to submit the completed report to the Home Secretary, who would arrange for its publication in Parliament.

The Panel’s report is independent, and the Home Office did not seek to, nor made any amendments to it. Checks were carried out to confirm the report was compliant with the Home Secretary's obligations to protect human rights and national security.