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Leveson Inquiry

Proceeding contribution from Matt Hancock (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 March 2018. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Leveson Inquiry.

I do not know the answer to the last point, because I am only looking at this inquiry. What I have to do, and what I have done today, is make a judgment about what the national interest is. I entirely understand the concerns of the victims in this issue. As we have heard from Members on both sides of the House, there have been significant changes. The inquiry was a significant undertaking that led to a year-long look at all these issues and the concerns of the victims, and then there were three police investigations and over 40 convictions. It is not as if this has not been looked into—it has been looked into to the tune of 48 million quid. I therefore have to take the decision today on what is in the national interest of the country as a whole, and that is exactly what I have done.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
636 c977 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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