Phone Hacking and the Media Debate

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Phone Hacking and the Media

Anna Soubry Excerpts
Monday 11th July 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I did not know about the dinner, and I did not reject Ofcom’s recommendation. If the former Culture Secretary had been listening to my statement, he would know that I actually accepted its recommendation. On 25 January, I wrote to News Corporation saying that I was minded to accept what Ofcom was recommending, namely a referral to the Competition Commission.

Anna Soubry Portrait Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) (Con)
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No party cosied up to the Murdoch press as much as the Labour party, and the Press Complaints Commission has been an inadequate, toothless body for far too long. Does the Secretary of State think that there is some connection in the failure of the previous Government to sort out the PCC, and will this Government take on that task?