SUELLA Braverman has confessed to sending official documents from her government email to her personal email on six separate occasions.
The under-fire Home Secretary set out her version of events in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee as she apologised again for breaching security rules which led to her resignation under Liz Truss.
She said she sent official documents between the two emails between September 6 and October 19 six times.
The Scottish Greens have insisted Braverman should be sacked.
In today's letter, she wrote: "I had sent official documents from my government email to my personal email address on six occasions.
"The review confirmed that all of these occasions occurred in circumstances when I was conducting Home Office meetings virtually or related to public lines to take in interviews."
Braverman has insisted there was nothing market-sensitive in the draft written ministerial statement (WMS) she sent from her private email address to Tory backbencher Sir John Hayes.
She said former prime minister Liz Truss had “specifically” asked her to engage with parliamentary colleagues to discuss the content of the planned WMS.
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The draft WMS consisted of “high-level proposals for liberalising our migration rules”, including “increasing the number of low-skilled foreign workers, as well as general plans for controlling illegal migration”.
Much of the document had already been briefed to MPs – including Hayes – “at the request” of Truss, although Braverman acknowledged that “some sentences” had not been fully agreed by all departments.
Braverman said: “I want the Home Affairs Select Committee to be reassured on the very important point about the nature of the document that I shared by mistake.
“The draft WMS did not contain any information relating to national security, the intelligence agencies, cyber security or law enforcement.
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“It did not contain details of any particular casework. It did not contain any market-sensitive data as all the data contained in the document was already in the public domain. It was not classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET.”
Braverman said the Home Office review “confirmed I had never used my Government email to send any information to external recipients outside of government”.
Other than on October 19, the event which triggered her resignation, she said: “I have not used my personal email account to send official Home Office documents to other people outside of government”.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been criticised for the reappointment of Braverman as Home Secretary just a week after she resigned over the security breaches.
Braverman has also received criticism for "wholly unacceptable" conditions at an asylum processing centre in Manston in Kent.
The Scottish Greens have said she shouldn't be in her job and have condemned the Home Office’s "racist" approach to migration and refugees.
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The party has called for the Home Office to be abolished and its responsibilities distributed to other government departments in an effort to move past "the culture of racism and hostility which has come to define its approach under successive UK Governments".
Green MSP Ross Greer said: “Time and again the Home Office has shown that it is completely unfit for purpose, and that it must finally be scrapped.
“Its incompetence is matched only by its cruelty. Vulnerable people should not be 'welcomed' to Britain with cramped, overcrowded prison-like conditions, let alone having to spend months stuck in them.
“At the centre of this is a Home Secretary who has leaked left, right and centre, broken the Ministerial Code and spoken of her ‘obsession’ with cruel deportation flights. If Rishi Sunak wants to emerge from this with any semblance of dignity, then must sack Braverman immediately."
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