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Phone Tapping

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

515 c23 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c23 (Link to this contribution) In December 2005, the Metropolitan police began an investigation focusing on alleged security breach...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 515 c23 (Link to this contribution) To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on the Metropolit...

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Chi Onwurah | 515 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) As a telecommunications engineer, I have helped build such networks, so I am aware of their security...

Adrian Sanders | 515 c26 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Select Committee, I recall that we had evidence that hundreds of people who are t...

Chris Bryant | 515 c27 (Link to this contribution) The trouble is that the police have not investigated even where there is new information and new evi...

Dennis Skinner | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) If this Government claim to be whiter than white, why did the top spinner at No. 10 Downing street l...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c24-6 (Link to this contribution) I will take first the issue that the shadow Home Secretary raised about the number of people involve...

Alan Johnson | 515 c24-6 (Link to this contribution) Mr Justice Gross said in the case of Mulcaire and Goodman that it was not about press freedom, but a...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c24 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. It is helpful of him to put before the House w...

Philip Davies | 515 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the shadow Home Secretary let the cat out of the bag by showing...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c30 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman heard the response that I gave to the question that the Chair of the ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c26 (Link to this contribution) I say to my hon. Friend that the matter has been investigated by the Metropolitan police, who did so...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) Conversations held by the Mayor of London are a matter not for the Government but for the Mayor.

Frank Dobson | 515 c26 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary agree that, in circumstances in which Members of this House may not have the...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) I refer the hon. Gentleman to remarks that I made earlier. I simply observe that although he uses th...

Madeleine Moon | 515 c31 (Link to this contribution) Last year, an elderly BBC journalist made a statement in a magazine that he had assisted in the deat...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) I will make the point that I made earlier. We are faced with a situation in which a number of allega...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c31 (Link to this contribution) The issue of contacting people who were on the list, and of whether their phones had been intercepte...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) As I indicated earlier, such operational matters about whether to investigate particular individuals...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that point. Last year, when Home Secretary, the shadow Home Secr...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) As I hoped I had made clear in response to several questions, the police have made it clear that if ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) No.

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c31 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Lady listen a little more carefully to what I have said, which is absolutely...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c23-4 (Link to this contribution) I say two things to the hon. Gentleman. First, he says that there is new evidence. As far as I can s...

Steve Barclay | 515 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) In terms of what the Metropolitan police have and have not said, can my right hon. Friend confirm th...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an issue about sentencing, which of course is in the remit of the Secretar...

David Lammy | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) Can the Home Secretary tell the House what meetings or conversations the Mayor of London has had wit...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) This matter was looked into. It was looked into last year by the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friend,...

John Whittingdale | 515 c24 (Link to this contribution) As the Home Secretary indicated, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee spent a considerable time ex...

Clive Efford | 515 c31 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State recall that the Mayor of London intervened in the case of the hon. Membe...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I have seen no explanation of why the issue has suddenly come forward in The New York Times at this ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) A very valid point has been made. It has been made clear that if evidence comes forward, the Metropo...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has referred to the Select Committee report's findings on this matter, to which I and...

Ian Lucas | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) Has the Home Secretary asked whether her name is on the list?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady refers to a lack of progress on this matter, but the position is absolutely clear. The...

Tony Baldry | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the straightforward fact is that the Metropolitan police can in...

Chris Leslie | 515 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) Has the Home Secretary had a chance to read the report published this May by the Information Commiss...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c27 (Link to this contribution) At the time of the investigation, the Metropolitan police made it clear that those people whose phon...

Andrew Miller | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) Has the right hon. Lady any knowledge of how many of the 91 PIN codes involved were default numbers ...

Alan Keen | 515 c30 (Link to this contribution) As a long-serving member of the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, I am proud of the fact...

Rosie Cooper | 515 c30 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary referred earlier to the comments of Assistant Commissioner Yates on the Radio 4 p...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 515 c26 (Link to this contribution) Far from that, the Metropolitan police investigated these matters when they were first raised. The m...

Julian Lewis | 515 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) seems to have forgotten about the existenc...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 515 c28 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary has repeatedly prayed in aid the Select Committee report in support of her decisi...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 515 c23-4 (Link to this contribution) Claim No. 1: there is no new evidence; there is. Claim No. 2: people were cleared by the Culture, Me...

Lord Walney | 515 c29 (Link to this contribution) Given the seriousness of these new allegations, many in this House and across the country will be su...

Subjects

Criminal investigation Journalism Newspaper press Mobile phones Metropolitan Police Surveillance Telephone tapping Telephones Coulson, Andy News of the World Goodman, Clive Mulcaire, Glenn

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