Metropolitan Police Service Debate

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Department: Home Office

Metropolitan Police Service

Chuka Umunna Excerpts
Monday 18th July 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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My hon. Friend is not the first to raise the issue of the remit of the Leveson inquiry. It will cover the culture, practices and ethics of the press, as well as the relationship of the press to the police and issues of regulation. So I would expect that it would indeed be able to look wider than just the issue of phone hacking.

Chuka Umunna Portrait Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham) (Lab)
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I note that the Home Secretary did not answer the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie) about whether the Prime Minister knew that Neil Wallis was working for the Met and/or whether Andy Coulson knew the same. Could she perhaps respond and let us know that answer to that question?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I must say to the hon. Gentleman that so far as I am aware, no, they did not know.