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Live: The Home Secretary answers questions on the Lawrence review in the House of Commons
A judge-led public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.
Home Secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons she found the report "deeply troubling".
The review by Mark Ellison QC found "reasonable grounds" to suspect corruption by former Det Sgt John Davidson.
Prime Minister David Cameron described the review as "profoundly shocking".
He tweeted: "Like the Home Secretary, I find the conclusions of the Stephen Lawrence review profoundly shocking. It's important we have a full inquiry."
The review found no evidence of corruption by other officers but said lines of inquiry might be able to provide that.
Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths as he waited at a bus stop in south-east London in April 1993.
His mother Baroness Lawrence said of the report findings: "I'm not shocked. It's something I suspected all along."
Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, 18, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.
A number of suspects were identified soon after the attack but it took more than 18 years to bring his killers to justice.
Several attempts to prosecute the suspects, including a private prosecution by the family, failed owing to unreliable or insufficient evidence.
In 1997, then Home Secretary Jack Straw ordered a public inquiry into the killing and its aftermath after concerns about the way the police had handled the case.
Sir William Macpherson, a retired High Court judge, led the inquiry. He accused the police of institutional racism and found a number of failings in how they had investigated the murder.
In January 2012, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of the murder by an Old Bailey jury after a review of the forensic evidence.
In 2012 Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of murdering 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence and sentenced to minimum terms of 15 years and two months and 14 years and three months respectively.
Mr Ellison, whose review was commissioned by the home secretary, said that Scotland Yard's Anti-Corruption Command had held a debriefing with former police detective Neil Putnam in late 1998 in which he made claims against Mr Davidson.
The report said the content of that debriefing and the intelligence picture suggesting Mr Davidson was corrupt should have been revealed to the public inquiry led by Sir William Macpherson.
'Serious issues'In a statement, Scotland Yard said: "Mark Ellison QC has received the full support of the Metropolitan Police Service in the research for his report.
"As we have only just received a copy of his report it would be highly inappropriate to comment upon it until we have taken the time to fully read, understand and assess its content.
"His report considers some very serious issues that whilst in the main are historical, could have a negative impact on confidence in modern day policing. We await the home secretary's announcement on how she wishes Mr Ellison's work to be taken forward.
"Later today, the Chief Constable of Derbyshire, Mick Creedon and the Deputy Commissioner, Craig Mackey, will publish a copy of Operation Herne's investigation into allegations made by Peter Francis."
Operation Herne is a review of undercover policing.
Former Scotland Yard undercover officer Peter Francis said he was instructed in 1993 to find information that could discredit the Lawrence family.
He told the Guardian and Channel 4's Dispatches programme last year that he was told to pose as an anti-racism campaigner in a hunt for "disinformation".
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