Phone Hacking Debate

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Department: Home Office

Phone Hacking

Lord McNally Excerpts
Tuesday 6th December 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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We shall hear from the noble Lord, Lord Maxwell, please.

Lord Maxton Portrait Lord Maxton
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My Lords, Maxton is the name. Why are this Government quite happy, as is Parliament and as previous Governments have been, to regulate television, radio and even the internet but are not prepared to undertake the statutory regulation of the print media?