An update on our story on Friday of the OFT deleting some emails that emerged after the publication of their provisional findings into the market report on Isle of Wight ferries.
We checked with the Office of Fair Trading that the emails that were sent by the people on the Island had been seen by the officials before they deleted and they replied, “I can confirm that these emails were looked at before they were deleted. The reason we are offering people to email them in again is so we have copies for our records.”
On VB‘s question on how the emails came to be deleted in these days of corporate email system, data security and backups. They replied, “On the wider point about how they got lost, as I said there was a technical glitch but information/email security is not something we would get into discussions about so I am not able to provide you with further details on this.”
More ferry comments please
Please ensure that if you emailed the OFT between 25 Feb and 10 March, you send them another copy – or indeed if you have additional relevant comments on the investigation, which is continuing, email them to [email protected].
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