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Periodic Review of Regulator

Leveson Inquiry · An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press · Issued 29 November 2012 · Addressed to: UK Government

Government responsePrime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street: Accepted in part (Mar 2013)

DeliveryUK Government states no delivery position (Oct 2013)

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The operation of any certified body should be reviewed by the recognition body after two years and thereafter at three yearly intervals.

Leveson Inquiry, An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press · 29 Nov 2012 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

The Inquiry recommended reviewing any certified press regulator after two years and every three years. The Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press, granted by the Privy Council in October 2013, specifies that the Board of the Recognition Panel must review a regulator after two years and every three years thereafter (Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press, Oct 2013). Earlier, in March 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron stated that statutory regulation was "not necessary to achieve the Leveson principles" and would instead be carried out through a royal charter (David Cameron response, Mar 2013).

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 1 Oct 2026.

Report-level response context

PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.

Government response

●Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street · Accepted in part · 18 Mar 2013

Words of: David Cameron, Prime Minister, speech opening the House of Commons emergency debate on the Royal Charter on Press Conduct, 18 March 2013 (HC Deb vol 560 cols 632-634)

As I believe we have shown today, statutory regulation of our media, and statutory regulation to create a recognition body, is not necessary to achieve the Leveson principles. We can do it—indeed we will do it—via a royal charter.

Response document: Royal Charter on Press Conduct (House of Commons emergency debate)

Site note: The Prime Minister's speech opening the House of Commons emergency debate on the Royal Charter on Press Conduct, 18 March 2013, as recorded in the Official Report (HC Deb vol 560, cols 632 to 634). The GOV.UK copy of the speech is the script written before it was delivered; its wording differs, and one of its passages is not in the Official Report at all, so the site quotes the record. He speaks for the Government; the site files his words under the Prime Minister's Office.

Site note: The Prime Minister gives this passage once, for the report's proposals for statutory recognition of a press regulator as a whole (col 633). The same words are recorded on recommendations 27, 28, 29, 30, 32 and 33.

Delivery

●UK Government states no delivery position · 30 Oct 2013

5. The Board of the Recognition Panel must review the recognition of a Regulator as soon as practicable after: a) the end of the period of two years beginning with the day of the recognition, b) the end of the period of three years after that period, and c) the end of each subsequent period of three years.

From: Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press

Site note: The passage is the text of the Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press, granted on 30 October 2013. The Charter sets up the Recognition Panel and the criteria a press regulator must meet to be recognised. It does not report what any regulator or publisher has done.

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