Media: Legal Costs
(asked on 22nd February 2023) - View Source
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government when they propose to enact section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
Answered by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 8th March 2023
The Government will not be enacting section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. The Conservative Party manifesto published in 2019 set out our intention to repeal section 40 and the Government has now committed to doing so via the Media Bill as announced in The Queen’s Speech.