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Public Confidence in the Media and Police

Debate on Wednesday, 20 July 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton. The answering member was Ed Miliband.

Motion that this House has considered the matter of public confidence in the media and the police. Motion lapsed. [Relevant document: the Thirteenth Report of the Home Affairs Committee, Session 2010-12, on Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications, HC 907.]

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Parliamentary proceeding

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531 c965-1050

Session

2010-12

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Prime Minister

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House of Commons chamber

Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications. Home Affairs Select Committee thirteenth report, with formal minutes.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 531 c1019 (Link to this contribution) Order. The time limit is being reduced to five minutes.

Speaker | 531 c980 (Link to this contribution) Order. In view of the number of Members seeking to take part in the debate, I have imposed an eight-...

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Ivan Lewis | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the Secretary of State, it is never a good idea to contradict the Prime Minister, es...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Culture Secretary be good enough to publish all his conversations with News Internat...

Steve McCabe | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that any discussion that the Prime Minister has is irrelevant. But is the right hon...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I will confirm that the Prime Minister had no inappropriate conversations with Rebekah Brooks at any...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I will make some progress. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr Clappison) said, any cons...

Gerald Kaufman | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it in order for a speaker at the Government Dispatch Box to say ...

Jack Straw | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his endorsement of what I was saying about press regul...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has said over and over again that there were no inappropriate discussions.

Speaker | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I must say that it is in order, and that it has in fact been happening for hundreds of y...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) made some ...

Ivan Lewis | 531 c1042-4 (Link to this contribution) The gravity of the issues we are debating cannot be overstated. They raise fundamental questions abo...

Mark Reckless | 531 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not have anything to say about the evidence we heard from my hon. and learne...

Ivan Lewis | 531 c1044 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is fully aware that the original police investigation was flawed. We now know tha...

Lord Sharma | 531 c1044 (Link to this contribution) The facts are clear. The whole House knows that this Prime Minister set up a judicial review and inq...

Ivan Lewis | 531 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I must acknowledge that the Prime Minister has responded positively during the crisis, every time in...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1044 (Link to this contribution) We have had excellent speeches this afternoon from the majority of Members, who chose not to be part...

John Whittingdale | 531 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I am almost embarrassed by the Secretary of State's praise. I would only say that Select Committees ...

Speaker | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) Order. Members can try to intervene, but the Secretary of State has the floor.

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1046 (Link to this contribution) They were irrelevant because the person who was making the decision was myself, and I was making it ...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) Time is short, and I need to make some progress. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr Foste...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1048-50 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, because I want to mention all the excellent comments we have heard, in...

Angela C Smith | 531 c1047 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Naomi Long | 531 c1002 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Gentleman share my incredulity about the attempts that were made yesterday when evidenc...

Bob Stewart | 531 c1002 (Link to this contribution) This is the difference between responsibility and fault. Rupert Murdoch was responsible for what hap...

Chris Bryant | 531 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, whom—this will ruin his career—I think of as a friend. He ...

Helen Goodman | 531 c1001 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my hon. Friend noticed that James Murdoch used in his evidence a very ambivale...

Chris Bryant | 531 c1001-2 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Then there were the subsequent civil cases, which could only be brought once The Guardi...

Chris Bryant | 531 c999-1001 (Link to this contribution) During the Prime Minister's statement, several hon. Members, especially those seated on the Governme...

James Clappison | 531 c998-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and that is why I have been very careful to refer to investigations that sh...

Damian Collins | 531 c999 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, as television moves to a single digital platform, having a strong IT...

Oliver Heald | 531 c998 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that we must not forget that there is a presumption of innocence right at ...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c997 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for what my hon. Friend has said. I can show him the evidence if he wants. On 30 May 2...

James Clappison | 531 c997-8 (Link to this contribution) I have to say, having heard the evidence, that the answer to my hon. and learned Friend's point rema...

Jack Straw | 531 c995 (Link to this contribution) It was not implemented at the time because we were required by the provisions which the Conservative...

Simon Hughes | 531 c995 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that the consultation ended in January 2010. The measure could have been impleme...

Jack Straw | 531 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) In practice, in those circumstances, it probably could not have done. My only regret is that I liste...

James Clappison | 531 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) I served on the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into this matter. I came to the inquiry straightforwa...

Jack Straw | 531 c994 (Link to this contribution) I want to deal with three issues, the first of which is the Prime Minister's opaque answers to the v...

John Whittingdale | 531 c995 (Link to this contribution) I do not answer for the Conservative Front Bench, but I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that the S...

Jack Straw | 531 c995 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is referring to the previous Administration, what he says is exactly correct. ...

John Whittingdale | 531 c995 (Link to this contribution) Why was it not implemented?

Simon Hughes | 531 c992 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I want to make some progress, but if I have any spare time, of course I will. W...

Duncan Hames | 531 c993 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend says that the fit and proper person test needs to be applied more robustly. Is ...

Clive Efford | 531 c992 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Simon Hughes | 531 c993 (Link to this contribution) I wanted to make some comments about where we should go, so let me start with the media and Ofcom. T...

Damian Collins | 531 c993 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Simon Hughes | 531 c991-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right, and there is clear evidence for that, and I can perhaps use his inter...

Graham Stuart | 531 c992 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the right hon. Gentleman about ensuring that we have a suitable spread of me...

Tom Brake | 531 c991 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that sometimes, that closeness might have led Governments to take po...

James Clappison | 531 c988 (Link to this contribution) I do not know many of the details that my hon. Friend has given to the House, but the Select Committ...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c988 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that new material was supplied by Harbottle & Lewis, but I am referring to m...

Andrew Miller | 531 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) In his speech, the Prime Minister reminded us of his previous incarnation working for ITV. That remi...

John Whittingdale | 531 c990 (Link to this contribution) In the report that the Culture, Media and Sport Committee released, there is a transcript of a conve...

Andrew Miller | 531 c990 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, because the fourth strand is indeed the way in which the mobile compani...

Simon Hughes | 531 c990-1 (Link to this contribution) My Liberal Democrat colleagues and I are very grateful that Mr Speaker has given us the opportunity ...

Sammy Wilson | 531 c991 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Simon Hughes | 531 c991 (Link to this contribution) In a second—I shall continue, if I may. I welcome what the Prime Minister said about the inquiry be...

Oliver Heald | 531 c987 (Link to this contribution) When the former Home Secretary spoke a moment ago, he used the words, ““or informally””. Does my hon...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) The matter needs to be closely examined, and the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee has taken it...

Lord Mann | 531 c1013 (Link to this contribution) That is four people.

Therese Coffey | 531 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, the phrase ““Don't believe everything you read in the press”” now seems to be true. In additi...

Sheila Gilmore | 531 c1014 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Therese Coffey | 531 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not know to whom the hon. Member for Rhondda was referring. We have to be careful when we say ...

Cathy Jamieson | 531 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be as brief as possible. The debate is very welcome; it is good for the public to see ...

Speaker | 531 c1011 (Link to this contribution) Order. As hon. Members can see, there are still a lot of Members who wish to get in. I want to accom...

Cathy Jamieson | 531 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) I would never seek to put words into the mouth of the normally loquacious Mr Salmond, the First Mini...

Ian Murray | 531 c1012 (Link to this contribution) What are my hon. Friend's thoughts on why the normally robust and vocal First Minister of Scotland h...

Steve McCabe | 531 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) A number of Members have said that we all bear some responsibility for our relations with the press,...

Therese Coffey | 531 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I was about to conclude, so, in deference to other hon. Members who wish to make a speech, I shall n...

Gerald Kaufman | 531 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) He did not have that kind of relationship with Murdoch. He did pursue Murdoch too much, I grant the ...

Andrew Selous | 531 c1007 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished Member of the House, for giving wa...

Gerald Kaufman | 531 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) I declare to the House that I was in Oxford university Labour club with Rupert Murdoch, that when I ...

Gerald Kaufman | 531 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the right hon. Gentleman that there are wonderful police officers—as there are...

Lord Foster of Bath | 531 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I will in a minute. We join both major political parties in saying that it is vital to acknowledge ...

Lord Mann | 531 c1009 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Foster of Bath | 531 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman), but I re...

Lord Foster of Bath | 531 c1010-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, but the other point that I want to make is that we need to reconsider the f...

Damian Collins | 531 c1009 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman may have been coming to the point that I am about to make, in which case, I...

Damian Collins | 531 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the very thoughtful speech of the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) ...

Chris Bryant | 531 c1002 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. In the end, if News Corp cannot provide better corporate governance, it needs to be split ap...

Damian Collins | 531 c1003-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. The point I raised with Rupert Murdoch in the Committee yest...

Damian Collins | 531 c1004 (Link to this contribution) All I would say is that I would apply the same rule as the Prime Minister: people are innocent until...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 531 c1004 (Link to this contribution) On this point about investigative journalism, will the hon. Gentleman disassociate himself from the ...

Damian Collins | 531 c1005 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and that is an important point. Going back to what I said ab...

Jim Fitzpatrick | 531 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as the Member of Parliament representing News International in Wapping. Althou...

Damian Collins | 531 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an important point. The media and the news, in particular...

William Cash | 531 c1005 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the self-regulation of the press in the 21st century has to be regard...

Andrew Selous | 531 c1015 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain to the House how he thinks a police force is more accountable to an ...

Steve McCabe | 531 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) That is not really the point. The point that I am making is that in the face of this enormous scanda...

Lord Lilley | 531 c1016-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the recall of Parliament. I am only sorry that we are not being recalled to discuss the pr...

Sheila Gilmore | 531 c1017 (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Gentleman, I have received numerous representations this year on the BSkyB takeo...

Lord Lilley | 531 c1017-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that perception is all; substance is the most important thing, along with following...

Barry Gardiner | 531 c1033 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, who has carried out e...

William Cash | 531 c1035 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that the terms of reference of that Joint Committee refer to media regulatio...

Robert Buckland | 531 c1034-5 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely right. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. There is a sense of someth...

Bob Blackman | 531 c1034 (Link to this contribution) We must also consider something else that has not been raised in our debate. Does my hon. Friend agr...

Robert Buckland | 531 c1033-4 (Link to this contribution) There have been many constructive and thoughtful contributions to the debate. The tone that we need ...

John McDonnell | 531 c1036-7 (Link to this contribution) I think that we will arrive at that situation only if we enforce the code of conduct and if journali...

Julie Hilling | 531 c1036 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the public largely believe what they read in the newspapers and what ...

John McDonnell | 531 c1035-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I make a plea to put an item on the Leveson agenda. As a result of the work of the...

Robert Buckland | 531 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. He makes the point that I was about to make. There is a link. There...

Jeremy Lefroy | 531 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) There are a number of things that need to be done to restore public confidence in the media and the ...

Robert Flello | 531 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying my hon. Friend's impassioned speech. Does she join me in thinking that when the worst ...

Yasmin Qureshi | 531 c1038 (Link to this contribution) For many members, there have been many defining points in the past two weeks. For me there were two ...

Stephen Pound | 531 c1039 (Link to this contribution) I am following my hon. Friend's argument closely, as is the whole House. Does she agree that there a...

Yasmin Qureshi | 531 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. The lies can often lead to phobias and bigotry against differe...

Richard Fuller | 531 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) Many hon. Members have referred to the strength of the media, but we should recognise that the corol...

Yasmin Qureshi | 531 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has just taken my next sentence from me. I was going to say that if two front pages a...

Margot James | 531 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (John Hemming). Let me make ...

John Hemming | 531 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I will have to truncate my speech greatly. We recognise that there has been a cover-up go...

Margot James | 531 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will not—the wind-ups start in one minute. My second point c...

Bill Esterson | 531 c1041 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give way?

Andrew Selous | 531 c1025-6 (Link to this contribution) All of us should approach this debate with a degree of humility before we stand in judgment over the...

Lord Sharma | 531 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) First, I add my voice to the unanimous view of the House that the phone hacking scandal is a total a...

Helen Goodman | 531 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) This is clearly an extremely important debate for the future and quality of our democracy and the na...

Mark Reckless | 531 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) The Home Affairs Committee commenced its report on a cross-party basis 10 months ago. That report sh...

Anna Soubry | 531 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a great pleasure to follow my fellow Nottinghamshire MP, the hon. Member for Bassetlaw ...

Lord Mann | 531 c1026-7 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday Rebekah Brooks described The Sun as a ““very clean ship””, and the Murdoch family appears ...

Speaker | 531 c1027 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Oliver Heald | 531 c1031 (Link to this contribution) My old friend the hon. Member for Eltham (Clive Efford) is right in one respect: there are faults in...

Clive Efford | 531 c1030-1 (Link to this contribution) I think it does, and it shows why Parliament was recalled so that we could have this debate. I am su...

Oliver Heald | 531 c1031-2 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not, because I have so little time. That is the way it is tonight. I shall make three po...

Anna Soubry | 531 c1029 (Link to this contribution) I could not have put it better than my hon. Friend has done, and I am sure that we are all grateful ...

David Burrowes | 531 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to mention the responsibility of the public for their purchasing decisions. ...

Lord Mann | 531 c1030 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend be astonished to learn that one of his constituents, as a police officer in 200...

Clive Efford | 531 c1029-30 (Link to this contribution) I believe that I am the first London Member from the Opposition Benches to speak in the debate. That...

Barry Gardiner | 531 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) We heard yesterday from people who said that they did not know about hacking and that they did not a...

Keith Vaz | 531 c1033 (Link to this contribution) Sir Paul Stephenson's evidence yesterday stated that Mr Yates was put under no time limit, so if he ...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c987 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend.

Keith Vaz | 531 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) We heard no such evidence, as the hon. Gentleman can confirm if he reads the report. My final point...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c986-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise three points. Although I congratulate the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keit...

Keith Vaz | 531 c985 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way a second time, but I am happy to talk to the hon. and learned Gentleman later, o...

Graham Stuart | 531 c985 (Link to this contribution) We have heard that there was a culture of too much closeness between those in power and those in New...

Keith Vaz | 531 c987 (Link to this contribution) I will write to the previous Attorney-General today to ask for that information.

Jack Straw | 531 c987 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentleman invites members of the then Cabinet at large to say whether the infor...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c987 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that information, but the fact remains that the Attorn...

Keith Vaz | 531 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) No witness who came before the Committee has said that to us, but I am happy to write to the previou...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c984 (Link to this contribution) May I take the right hon. Gentleman back to 2006? Did he find as part of his investigation that the ...

John Whittingdale | 531 c981-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. There was undoubtedly a failure of corporate governance, and that m...

Geoffrey Cox | 531 c982 (Link to this contribution) Is it not also true that Mr. Hoare was unwilling to back up the allegations that he had made to The ...

John Whittingdale | 531 c982 (Link to this contribution) I know that it was widely believed that Sean Hoare's testimony would not stand up in court. I want ...

Jack Straw | 531 c982 (Link to this contribution) The answer, which I will explain in more detail if I catch Mr Speaker's eye, is that provisions to d...

John Whittingdale | 531 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will elaborate, because he is right to say that the measure is ...

Andrew Selous | 531 c983 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that it would be helpful, when a newspaper makes an apology, if the apolog...

John Whittingdale | 531 c983 (Link to this contribution) There is a requirement in the Press Complaints Commission code that an adjudication of the PCC shoul...

Keith Vaz | 531 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale). I congratulate him and his ...

John Whittingdale | 531 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I was going to deal with that matter. He is absolutely right to...

Paul Farrelly | 531 c980 (Link to this contribution) We have not produced a report, but we have had some success. Yesterday, as the hon. Gentleman will r...

John Whittingdale | 531 c980 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate is part of a long saga that probably still has some way to go. That saga began, argua...

Ed Miliband | 531 c979 (Link to this contribution) People will draw their own conclusions, and my hon. Friend has put the point on the record. I want t...

Ed Miliband | 531 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress. There are unanswered questions about all the allegations, all the cred...

Ed Miliband | 531 c979 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some more progress. I want, if I may, to come back to two or three outstanding is...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 531 c979 (Link to this contribution) On the question of relationships between politicians and the media, what lessons does the Leader of ...

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) I did have one lunch with News International and it was profoundly unsuccessful, as people will have...

Oliver Heald | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition rightly talks about the independence of the police, yet he seems to hav...

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman; he and I are old sparring partners.

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some more progress, if I may. We need to reform our press and politics and we ne...

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) This is not about the operational independence of the police and I am surprised that the hon. Gentle...

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) I think I might get to the point on which the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene, if he gives me a mo...

Ed Miliband | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is so over-excited that I feel I must give way to him in case a nasty accident be...

Nadhim Zahawi | 531 c978 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman will publish all the meetings he had with the media before h...

Ed Miliband | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) Let me make progress and then I might give way to the hon. Gentleman. We need to change our press, ...

Ed Miliband | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Sir Paul Stephenson acted with great honour in this matter and I am sure that is recognised...

Ed Miliband | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my distinguished and right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz), the ...

Keith Vaz | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the Opposition for that. May I take him back to the beginning of his speech wh...

Ed Miliband | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening to what I was saying in my speech. We need to change—...

Keith Vaz | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Ed Miliband | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) Who is next? The hon. Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) seems very excited so I will take his ...

George Freeman | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition started by striking, as the Prime Minister did earlier, a tone of state...

Ed Miliband | 531 c974 (Link to this contribution) Will hon. Members give me a moment? The former Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for ...

Ed Miliband | 531 c977 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little more progress, if the hon. Gentleman will be patient. The independence and imp...

Charlie Elphicke | 531 c976 (Link to this contribution) My concern is that we preserve the freedom of the press. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned News Int...

Ed Miliband | 531 c977 (Link to this contribution) Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman on that point. Of course, the police inquiry and the judge-led in...

Sajid Javid | 531 c977 (Link to this contribution) In yesterday's Committee, Rebekah Brooks said that she had not had a single meeting with the Prime M...

Ed Miliband | 531 c977 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that was the most helpful intervention from the point of view of the Prime Minister. ...

Stephen Metcalfe | 531 c975 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Ed Miliband | 531 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will just listen to my speech for a bit longer. Some of the institutions...

Ed Miliband | 531 c976 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress. It is commonly agreed that we need a new system of regulation. Whethe...

Robert Halfon | 531 c971 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Given what he has just said, is he aware that the BBC a...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c971 (Link to this contribution) It is an interesting idea, which my hon. Friend can put to this inquiry. I think the key is—I am bia...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c970-1 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress and then I will come back to my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c971 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit more progress. The third key to success is that, while we cannot commit in advanc...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c971 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit more progress. In anticipation of what might come out of a judicial inquiry, we a...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress, and then I will give way a couple more times before I close. So, ...

Robert Halfon | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

David Winnick | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) However critical I may be of the press, and however biased in many ways, I am totally opposed to any...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with the hon. Gentleman that the current system of self-regulation has failed, not least ...

Ed Miliband | 531 c974 (Link to this contribution) I take all allegations against members of my staff seriously, which is why I checked these out with ...

Ed Miliband | 531 c974 (Link to this contribution) Who is next, Mr Speaker? I give way to the hon. Gentleman.

John Howell | 531 c974 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening to the passion with which the right hon. Gentleman has been making his case, b...

Ed Miliband | 531 c974 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is completely right that we did not do enough and we should have done more. I am ...

Karen Buck | 531 c972 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. Returning to the issue of the police's operation...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c972 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make is that it is quite clear that the police have operational independence, beca...

Ed Miliband | 531 c972 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate and in starting it, all of us should remember what brings us here. Parliament ...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 531 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not think there is one person in the country—well, maybe there are a handful—who thinks the dep...

Ed Miliband | 531 c973 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with the hon. Lady's comments. As the Prime Minister said in his speech, there ar...

Graham Stuart | 531 c973-4 (Link to this contribution) The Labour party's director of communications, Tom Baldwin, is accused of having been involved in th...

Alan Johnson | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) John Yates wrote to me, as previous Home Secretary, last week. He wrote me a private and confidentia...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a moment; I want to make some progress. The fourth and final challenge is how we...

Alan Johnson | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c968 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point. His recognition that this is a 20-year issue in whi...

Chris Bryant | 531 c968 (Link to this contribution) Sue Akers, who is now in charge of the investigation, says that what broke the logjam of the cover-u...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c968 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with that. Indeed, I think that there might be a case, when it comes to media merg...

Lord Tyrie | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) What the Prime Minister has said about plurality is extremely interesting and important, and it will...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) The point I was going to make, which is important, is that in my understanding, the reopening of the...

Alan Johnson | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there is a certain paradox involved here. The letter says:"““The reason that a new in...

Speaker | 531 c967 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to learn about this private and confidential letter.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c969 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right—we must maintain operational independence. The point about the police commi...

Lord Beith | 531 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend and I agree very much with the point he has just made. However...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c969 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit of progress, and then I will give way to the hon. Lady. The relationship between ...

David Winnick | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give way?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c969 (Link to this contribution) I have got a feeling that it will be a question about the Bill of Rights that I will not be able to ...

William Cash | 531 c969 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) I think the terms of reference are pretty clear. The point about cross-media ownership is not about ...

William Cash | 531 c969 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to say that it is about not the Bill of Rights but the terms of reference that are now in ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c965 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered matter of public confidence in the media and the polic...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) I can only speak for myself: I had no notice of it. I know full well that Andy Coulson's resignation...

Barry Gardiner | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will know that Operation Weeting began just four days after the resignation of An...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that my hon. Friend did not get in to speak among the first 138, because that was an abso...

Penny Mordaunt | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) In response to the Prime Minister's call for party leaders to join him in publishing their dealings ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) Of course everything that is published should be brought to my attention and to the police's attenti...

Stella Creasy | 531 c966 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Prime Minister has today dismissed the evidence set out in The New York Times that ca...

Jeremy Hunt | 531 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) We have more independent Select Committees in this Parliament, thanks to the decisions taken by this...

Simon Hughes | 531 c992 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. The speech that the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) m...

Simon Hughes | 531 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) I will see if I have time, but I want to set out what needs to be done. We need to look again at th...

Lord Foster of Bath | 531 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I regret allowing the right hon. Gentleman to intervene because, yet again, he is trying to engage i...

Speaker | 531 c1026 (Link to this contribution) Order.

Michael Meacher | 531 c1024-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate and, like others, I want to talk about corporate governance. The Murdoch newsp...

Clive Efford | 531 c1031 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Chris Bryant | 531 c981 (Link to this contribution) I just worry that perhaps the hon. Gentleman is accepting at face value rather too readily what the ...

Alun Cairns | 531 c976 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

James Clappison | 531 c999 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and this is particularly true in the case of immigration. It is now accepte...

Richard Fuller | 531 c1003 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a strong point, as the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) did, about co...

Michael McCann | 531 c1018-9 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate is entitled ““Public confidence in the media and police””, but whatever the shortcomi...

Karen Buck | 531 c970 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give way?

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