10.46am: The inquiry takes a short break before closing submissions from newspapers. 10.45am: Leveson says he will considering press coverage of his inquiry if it is relevant that they "support or undermine" complaints that have been made about newspapers. 10.43am: Leveson says he may have to hold new hearings, but the likelihood of these is "comparatively remote." 10.43am: The recipients of these letters will be expected to respond to the criticism with more than a "not me" defence, Leveson adds. 10.42am: The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh has just tweeted: 10.42am: The inquiry will send "rule 13" warning letters to people who will be the subject of criticism in its final report, Leveson says. 10.40am: Leveson indicates that he wants Lloyd Embley, the editor of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, to explain his newspapers' alleged relationship with Matt Sprake, who runs the NewsPics agency and last week told of carrying out surveillance on more than 300 people over two years. 10.37am: Lord Justice Leveson is now talking about the future of the inquiry. Leveson says he wants newspapers to give evidence on which of their journalists used Steve Whittamore, the private investigator at the centre of the Operation Motorman logs. He sets a deadline of 10 September for newspapers to reveal which of their journalists used Whittamore and what happened to the information. 10.31am: The inquiry will publish 81 witness statements in the coming days. 10.30am: The Guardian's Lisa O'Carroll has tweeted: 10.29am: Akers says she will return to update the inquiry in the autumn. She has now completed her evidence. 10.29am: Akers says there has been a change in the culture and practice of News International, when asked by Lord Justice Leveson. 10.29am: Akers says the Met police has notified 2,615 people that they may have been a victim of phone hacking. She says 702 of these people "are likely to have been victims." A figure above 702 are likely to have been victims but for one reason or another the Met has not been able to contact them. 10.25am: One of the mobile phone thefts took place in Manchester and another in south-west London, Jay says. The Met is examining whether this practice was isolated or more widespread. 10.24am: Akers says some News International material seems to have come from stolen mobile phones. In late 2010, one mobile phone was examined with a view to breaking its security code so its contents could be downloaded by "experts." 10.22am: Six people have been arrested under the Computer Misuse Act or on suspicion of handling stolen goods, Akers says. Each of those arrested are on police bail. 10.21am: Akers is asked about Operation Tuleta. The Met police is examining allegations of data intrusion from 101 people, Akers says. Operation Tuleta is examining 8-12TB of data, she adds. A single terabyte would fill a mountain of books 3.5 times the height of Everest. 10.20am: The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh has just tweeted: and 10.19am: Akers says there was a change in the nature of the co-operation between police and the MSC after adverse publicity following the arrests of Sun journalists. The MSC began to ask police to "justify our request to a degree that we perhaps hadn't formerly been doing" and that the information was slower in being handed over, she adds. Akers says police have recently received "a substantial amount of material." 10.16am: Akers is asked about arrests at the Sun. News Corp's MSC has provided a lot of evidence of "suspected criminality," Akers says, which has led to "very substantial" arrest days. 10.16am: The Met police has served notices to the heads of legal for Trinity Mirror and Express Newspapers, says Akers. Trinity Mirror asked the Met to obtain a production order from a court; Express Newspapers want to draw up a voluntary protocol similar to News International, she adds. 10.14am: Akers says that the Met police believes another prison officer has received £14,000 in payments from Trinity Mirror from February 2006 to January 2012. She adds that the police have found articles in the Daily Mirror which they believe relate to these payments. She says the "majority of these stories reveal very limited material of genuine public interest." 10.12am: In one case a prison officer at a high-security prison received payment via their former partner, says Akers. She tells the inquiry that this person's partner's bank account has revealed payments from News International, Trinity Mirror and Express Newspapers between April 2010 and June 2011 totalling £35,000. Akers adds that the prison officer retired in June 2011 but there was a payment from Express Newspapers in February this year. 10.10am: Akers says that the Elveden investigation has recently established that some public officials have allegedly received payment from more than one newspaper. 10.09am: Akers says that 41 people have been arrested under Operation Elveden, including 23 current or former journalists, four police officers, nine current or former public officials and other people who allegedly acted as conduits 10.08am: Fifteen current and former journalists have been arrested and 12 are on bail under the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking, Akers says. Eleven are due to return to answer bail at various police stations tomorrow. 10.07am: Jay says there was a pause of two or three weeks in the MSC's disclosure to the police from the middle of May to 13 June. Akers does not say why the MSC paused its disclosure to the police, but that it resumed on 14 June and continues to the present. 10.05am: Jay asks about Scotland Yard's dealings with News Corp's management and standards committee. News Corp's two MSC figures, Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg, no longer attend regular meetings with the police, Akers says. "They decided they would prefer the meetings to be on a more formal basis with lawyers only," she adds. 10.05am: Akers says the Met police has worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which has advised it over potential charges. 10.02am: The inquiry has begun and DAC Sue Akers takes the stand. 9.51am: If you want to watch Sue Akers's evidence live, there will be a video stream on the Leveson inquiry website here. 9.49am: Good morning and welcome to the Leveson inquiry live blog. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, who is leading the Metropolitan police investigations related to phone hacking, gives evidence to the inquiry today. She is expected to advise the inquiry on the whether the three investigations - Operation Weeting, into phone hacking; Operation Elveden, into inappropriate payments from journalists to police and public officials; and Operation Tuleta, into breaches of privacy related to computer hacking - are close to being completed. So far 74 people have been arrested: 26 people in connection with Operation Weeting, 41 in connection with Operation Elveden and seven in connection with Operation Tuleta. She is likely to say whether the number of officers working on the three investigations will soon be pared back. The three probes have put huge strain on Scotland Yard, at a time when it is preparing high-level operations relation to the London Olympics. The Met has 19 officers working on Operation Tuleta, compared with 96 officers and civilian personnel on Operation Weeting and 70 on Operation Elveden. Akers, who will step down from the role later this year, last appeared at the inquiry in February, shortly after the first arrests of Sun journalists under Operation Elveden. She told the inquiry that the Sun had established a "network of corrupted officials" and had created a "culture of illegal payments." Akers alleged that one individual received £80,000 in corrupt payments over a number of years, and told the inquiry that one Sun journalist drew more than £150,000 over the years to pay sources. The inquiry will also hear closing submissions from the Met, Telegraph Media Group and Associated Newspapers. Please note that comments have been switched off for legal reasons.