MI5 Staff Who Lack Computer Skills Made Redundant

MI5 is ditching staff who lack computer skills in a programme of compulsory and voluntary redundancies. The Intelligence and Security Committee said the service had been reviewing its staff profile and one area of concern was the level of IT skills. MI5 director general Jonathan Evans told the committee: I think some of the staff perhaps aren’t quite the ones that we will want for the future. It also said MI5 faced cuts because of the state of the public finances