Phone Hacking Debate

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Department: Home Office

Phone Hacking

Lord Elystan-Morgan Excerpts
Wednesday 18th January 2012

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Henley Portrait Lord Henley
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My Lords, I think some of the concentration of press ownership happened during the Government of whom the noble Lord was such a distinguished member in former years. I do not think it would be appropriate, as I said, to comment in advance of the inquiry that will be concluded in due course, in his time, by Lord Justice Leveson.

Lord Elystan-Morgan Portrait Lord Elystan-Morgan
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My Lords, can the Minister tell the House, in general terms, whether systems of state security dedicated to the surveillance of communications worldwide can cast any light at all on the question of phone hacking? If that is the case, subject to proper safeguards, can such information can be relayed to the Leveson inquiry?