Leveson Inquiry. Read indexed debates, questions, statements and early day motions, with links to the original parliamentary records.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what timetable he has set for commencing the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry.
Criminal proceedings connected to the subject matter of the Leveson Inquiry, including the appeals process, have not yet been completed. We have always been clear that these cases must conclude before we consider Part 2 of the Inquiry.
Commons Chamber
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he made of the cost of Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry.
Criminal proceedings connected to the subject matter of the Leveson Inquiry, including the appeals process, have not yet completed. We have always been clear that these cases must conclude before we consider Part 2 of the Inquiry, including any estimate of cost.
Commons Chamber
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government intends to proceed with Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry.
Criminal proceedings connected to the subject matter of the Leveson Inquiry, including the appeals process, have not yet completed. We have always been clear that these cases must conclude before we consider Part 2 of the Inquiry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on part two of the Leveson Inquiry.
Criminal proceedings connected to the subject matter of the Leveson Inquiry, including the appeals process, have not yet completed. We have always been clear that these cases must conclude before we consider Part 2 of the Inquiry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects part two of the Leveson Inquiry to take place; and if he will make a statement.
The Government has been clear that a decision on whether to undertake Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry will not take place until after all criminal investigations and trials related to Part 1 are concluded.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment has been made of the success of the current system of press regulation in preventing children being named before being charged, following the identification before charges were brought of the child convicted of stabbing Vincent Uzomah and the child accused of fatally stabbing Bailey Gwynne.
The Government is committed to a strong, independent and effective self-regulatory system for the press that commands the confidence of both the public and the industry.Following the Leveson Inquiry, and with cross-party agreement, Government has now delivered the framework for a new system of independent press self-regulation: the Royal Charter has been sealed and the Press Recognition Panel has been appointed, opening for business in September of this year. We must now give this new approach time to become established.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects part two of the Leveson Inquiry, examining allegations of police corruption and the relationships between newspaper organisations and the police, prosecuting authorities and relev
A decision on whether to undertake Part II of the Leveson Inquiry will not take place until after all criminal investigations and trials related to Part I are concluded. They are still ongoing.
My Right Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Matthew Hancock) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:The cost of support provided to Government Witnesses to the Leveson Inquiry though the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitors) is £287,491.10.
My Right Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Matthew Hancock) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement:
The cost of support provided to Government Witnesses to the Leveson Inquiry though the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitors) is £287,491.10.
The cost of support provided to Government Witnesses to the Leveson Inquiry though the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitors) is £287,491.10.
The cost of support provided to Government Witnesses to the Leveson Inquiry though the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitors) is £287,491.10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains her policy that Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry into the relationship of the police and the press will take place; and when she expects that part of the inquiry to begin.
The Government has been clear that a decision on whether to undertake Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry will not take place until after all criminal investigations and trials related to Part 1 are concluded. As these are still ongoing it would
be inappropriate to comment further.
Lords Chamber
Lords Chamber
Lords Chamber
That this House welcomes the decisive vote of the House of Lords to introduce a low-cost arbitration system for victims of press defamation; notes that newspapers which do not join the system will face higher damages; further notes the comments from Lords Fowler and Puttnam that the Government and Opposition are stalling on reforms and that the measures proposed in the present bill are framed as if the Leveson inquiry had never happened; commends the peers' amendments; and urges the Governmen...
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Commons Chamber
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That this House believes that the question as to who makes the decision as to what is appropriate to print is more important than the question as to whether or not there is a statutory framework; furtherbelieves that it would be dangerous if regulation produced a press that was deferential to powerful people; recognises that freedom of speech means that at times things will be printed that some people may see as unfair; and calls for the Government to take this into account when responding to...
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