Rebekah Brooks questioned over MoD payments © Reuters/Olivia Harris Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been questioned by police about payments to Ministry of Defence officials, according to sources. She is understood to have been asked about evidence handed over by News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee The 41-year-old was answering bail in Milton Keynes relating to her first arrest by Operation Weeting last summer. Both Scotland Yard and Mrs Brooks's spokesman declined to comment.