Phone Hacking and the Media

Sajid Javid Excerpts

Monday 11th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

What I would say to the right hon. Gentleman is how is it possible, when that happened under his Government, for them to do absolutely nothing about it for eight years?

[Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove) (Con)]

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Will he confirm that any police investigation into this matter will cover the media practice of blagging?

[Mr Hunt]

I confirm to my hon. Friend that the intention is that the judge-led inquiry will cover all illegal and improper activity, and I am particularly keen that it should cover the practice of blagging, which is at the heart of many of the problems that we have been finding out about in the past week.