Leveson Inquiry

Mark Reckless Excerpts

Wednesday 25th April 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mark Reckless (Rochester and Strood) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend agree that what these e-mails show is the shocking extent to which lobbyists exaggerate, embellish and invent the access and influence they actually have?

[Mr Hunt]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are countless examples in those e-mails of things that simply did not happen—of meetings that were alleged to have taken place not just with me, but with members of my Department, but that simply did not happen. It is very important that we hear all the evidence so that we can get to the bottom of what is truth and what is fiction.