Special Reports

The majority of the Committee's Special Reports, like its Annual Reports, are made to both the Prime Minister (in classified form) and to Parliament (with sensitive material redacted). However, a small number of reports, which deal with the most highly classified matters, may be made solely to the Prime Minister.

The published versions of the Committee's Special Reports are listed below.

The 2017 Attacks: What needs to change?

Published November 2018


Report on Diversity and Inclusion in the UK Intelligence Community

Published July 2018


Reports on Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition

Published June 2018

These reports examine the actions of the UK security and intelligence agencies in relation to the handling of detainees overseas and rendition. 

Report on UK Lethal Drone Strikes in Syria

Published April 2017

This Report examines the intelligence basis behind the UK lethal drone strike against Reyaad Khan, a British citizen, in Syria in August 2015.

Report on draft Investigatory Powers Bill

Published February 2016

This Report describes the Committee's response to the intelligence agency-related aspects of the Government's draft Investigatory Powers Bill and builds upon the recommendations made in the Committee's Privacy and Security Report of March 2015.

Report on Privacy and Security

Published March 2015

This Report includes, for the first time in a single document, a comprehensive review of the full range of intrusive capabilities available to the UK intelligence Agencies. It contains an unprecedented amount of information about those capabilities, the legal framework governing their use, and the privacy protections and safeguards that apply. The Report also reveals the use of certain capabilities – such as Bulk Personal Datasets and Directions under the Telecommunications Act 1984 – for the first time. The Report represents a landmark in terms of the openness and transparency surrounding the Agencies’ work.

Report on Women in the UK Intelligence Community

Published March 2015

The Report considers recruitment policy and practice; maternity-related issues, childcare and flexible working; career and promotion prospects; and cultural and behavioural issues.

Report on the intelligence relating to the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby

Published November 2014
 
Following the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, on 22 May 2013, the ISC investigated what MI5, SIS and GCHQ knew about the two men who carried out the attack to see whether it could have been prevented.

GCHQ’s alleged interception of communications under the US PRISM programme

Published July 2013 

This Report was issued by the Committee in response to allegations that GCHQ acted illegally by accessing the content of private communications via the US PRISM programme.

Foreign Involvement in the Critical National Infrastructure

Published June 2013 

This Report investigates the Government's strategy for considering national security issues in relation to foreign involvement in the UK's Critical National Infrastructure. 


Access to communications data by the intelligence and security Agencies

Published 5 February 2013 

This Report considers the use of communications data by the intelligence and security Agencies, and how the proposals in the Government’s draft Communications Data Bill might affect them.

Review of the Intelligence on the London Terrorist Attacks on 7 July 2005

Published 19 May 2009 

This Report addresses the unanswered questions relating to the intelligence on the 7/7 bombers, particularly those arising out of the investigation of the 2004 fertiliser bomb (CREVICE) plot.

Rendition

Published July 2007 

This Report considers whether the UK security and intelligence Agencies had any knowledge of, and/or involvement in, rendition operations, and also the Agencies' overall policy for intelligence sharing with foreign liaison services. 

Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on 7 July 2005

Published May 2006

This Report examines intelligence and security matters relevant to the July terrorist attacks, focusing in particular on: whether any intelligence which may have helped prevent the attacks was missed or overlooked; why the threat level to the UK was lowered prior to the attacks and what impact this had; and what lessons were learned from these attacks, and how these lessons are being applied.

The Handling of detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq

Published March 2005

This report covers the contact between detainees and the SIS, Security Service, both military and civilian DIS staff and military intelligence personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq.

Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction – Intelligence and Assessments

Published September 2003

This report examines whether the available intelligence, which informed the decision to invade Iraq, was adequate and properly assessed and whether it was accurately reflected in Government publications.

Inquiry into Intelligence, Assessments and Advice prior to the Terrorist Bombings on Bali 12 October 2002

Published December 2002

The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report

Published June 2000

Sierra Leone

Published April 1999

Report on Security Service Work Against Organised Crime

Published December 1995