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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 20 July 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.

Public Confidence in the Media and Police

Statement on phone hacking.

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531 c918-62 
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2010-12
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-1291
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 531 c922 (Link to this contribution) Order. I said a few moments ago that the remainder of the Prime Minister's statement should be heard...
Ed Miliband | 531 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me start with BSkyB. The Prime Minister said in his statement something that he has said on a nu...
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Speaker | 531 c923 (Link to this contribution) Order. Members shouting out should not be doing so. They must calm themselves and keep on an even ke...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c918-21 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement. Over the past two weeks, a torrent o...
Speaker | 531 c921 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the Prime Minister. The House must come to order and hear, in si...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c921 (Link to this contribution) People will, of course, make judgments about it. Of course, I regret, and I am sorry about, the furo...
Ed Miliband | 531 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by thanking the Prime Minister for his statement? Recalling Parliament was the right thi...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is a matter of regret. Frankly, both Front-Bench teams have to accept that warnings ...
Catherine McKinnell | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister tell the House the details of any appropriate conversations he had about the...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) I simply say to the hon. Gentleman that he should check the transcript of what Sir Paul Stephenson a...
Alun Cairns | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) In 2006 the Information Commissioner published two reports expressing concerns about the risk of pho...
Graham P Jones | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) Has the Prime Minister ever uttered the word ““BSkyB”” in the presence of Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Mur...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) I would be a little careful about this. The police have to have a relationship with the media, both ...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), will t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) What I have done that no Prime Minister has done before is set out all the details of the meetings a...
Matt Hancock | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) Does it not raise serious questions about how the previous Government operated that Labour Members s...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for putting that on the record because it is right. The judgment that my chie...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) To the best of my knowledge, the first I knew of it was on Sunday. We are now getting to the bottom ...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 531 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that the vast majority of people in the country, whom we in the House ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) The British public are wise about this. They want us to get on with it and fix this problem. Frankly...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) I said that I am extremely sorry and that I deeply regret the whole furore that this has kicked up. ...
Gavin Shuker | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, the Prime Minister said that ““if it turns out that I have been lied to, that woul...
Jane Ellison | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has challenged us all to deal with the consequences of these events. Does he agre...
Thomas Docherty | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) Was Mrs Brooks lying yesterday when she said that it was the Chancellor's bright idea to hire Andy C...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) I have answered this question. I took myself out of the whole decision-making process on BSkyB. Havi...
Paul Uppal | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) There are very few places in the world where the leader of the Executive would subject himself to tw...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) Even from Nigeria I could follow the Home Secretary's excellent statement in which she made precisel...
Sheila Gilmore | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) Since being elected, constituents have contacted me regularly about the BSkyB takeover and their con...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has many bright ideas and he and I discuss many things, but in the end I never seek t...
Lord Barwell | 531 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) One of the Leader of the Opposition's main charges in his statement was that the commissioner did no...
Baroness Coffey | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) Nigel Pickover, a constituent of mine, is editor of the Evening Star and recently wrote to the Prime...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) I simply wanted to make the point to my hon. Friend that he is right. At the heart of all this, as w...
Speaker | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have been enjoying listening to the questions and answers as well, but I want to continue t...
George Howarth | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) Given the importance of the BSkyB decision to the balance of broadcasting in this country, why did t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) I am going to go further in a minute in my speech and suggest that it may be the case that we should...
Bob Stewart | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) It is quite clear that relationships between our political leaders and leadership in the media are g...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I am going to address that directly in the speech that I will make ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) They play a vital role in the health of our local democracy, our constituencies and what I call the ...
Glyn Davies | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) I believe that most Members will welcome and greatly support the inquiries that the Prime Minister h...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c961 (Link to this contribution) I think my hon. Friend is right. We have to crack this, we have to deal with it and we have to do it...
Speaker | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must just ask the hon. Lady now to ask a single question in a sentence.
Baroness Curran | 531 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Prime Minister, in all sincerity, to dissociate himself from the comment of the hon. M...
Baroness Curran | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister dissociate himself from comments that allege that Opposition Members are see...
Alex Cunningham | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree with the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles), who told ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been extremely brave, if I may say so, Mr Speaker. As Parliament is going into re...
Speaker | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have got the thrust of the hon. Gentleman's question. He will resume his seat; that was qu...
Duncan Hames | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Mr Sanders) tested witnesses on the term, ““wilful b...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) Although I share the hon. Gentleman's lack of enthusiasm for the euro, we have to recognise in this ...
Ian Davidson | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that we need to move on—not least because we want to watch without dis...
Sam Gyimah | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) I might be about to block my copy book with you, Mr Speaker—but in response to your comment that you...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) I thought Rebekah Brooks defined it excellently—one that you could also repeat in front of a Select ...
Bill Esterson | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister define for us what he regards as an appropriate conversation between him and...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) There is no real defence of that sort. There is going to be a police investigation—it is under way—t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) She specifically rejected that point yesterday. Guto now works for my good friend and colleague the ...
Natascha Engel | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) Last week I read in the Daily Mail that the Prime Minister had been about to appoint the ex-BBC jour...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very powerful point, and one that will be noted.
Jason McCartney | 531 c952 (Link to this contribution) I have a question about the conduct of Andy Coulson while he was at No. 10. Did Andy Coulson ever su...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) I have finally received an apology—and the Chancellor has too—although it took a while, for the appa...
Simon Kirby | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister think that the Leader of the Opposition should apologise for Damian McBride?...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I cannot remember every conversation that I have ever had with John Yates. I did mee...
Ian Lucas | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister, when he was Leader of the Opposition, discuss with John Yates the issue of p...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) The point that I would make to my hon. Friend is that we have to be careful that this inquiry does n...
George Freeman | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that one of the most lamentable episodes in this sad affair was the de...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will recall that the previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, intervened with the E...
Speaker | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the hon. Lady that I have made the point already and reminded the House that ref...
Andy Slaughter | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) As regards the use made by Andy Coulson of Neil Wallis in the run-up to the general election, the Pr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) I want to get to the bottom of the question that the hon. Gentleman asks about what advice Mr Wallis...
Marcus Jones | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's predecessor, the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown), sa...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) Just like everything else, I found a complete mess.
Lord Mann | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) At Chequers or anywhere else, on how many occasions has the Prime Minister discussed this scandal wi...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) As the House knows, Andy Coulson came to stay with me in March. I have not spoken to him for weeks. ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) We have seen an enormous cut in the Government advertising budget—just one of the many things we hav...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) I explained all this at Question Time last week. The point is this: if I had been given proper evide...
Alec Shelbrooke | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on taking the lead when new evidence came to light, and establ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. One of the things we can now do is leave the public inquiry...
Michael McCann | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Prime Minister a question that will both help him to be transparent and quash a conspi...
Mark Menzies | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) In recent days the work of Select Committees has stood the House in good stead and done us proud, bu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the judicial inquiry will do that. One of the issues that it is looking at is the relation...
Stephen Timms | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) If the Prime Minister had known the new information about Andy Coulson given to his chief of staff b...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) The point is that we employed a company to do this work. It was not something that we were planning ...
Lord Hart of Tenby | 531 c954 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister aware that the previous Administration spent over £11 million on advertising w...
Speaker | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind Members that as a matter of basic courtesy, Members standing and seeking to catc...
Christopher Pincher | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister ensure that the activities of Damian McBride, the king of smears and spin un...
Angela C Smith | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) The New York Times last September said that the reporter to whom it had spoken was one of two people...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I had a number of conversations all the time during his employment. In the end the s...
Speaker | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) Order. Questions are becoming longer and longer, and they need to get shorter.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition do not like hearing about it because they know that they had people working in Downin...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. An enormous amount of money is still spent by local authorities o...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) I will write to the hon. Gentleman. I do not want to give an answer that is not accurate.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) Let us be clear. The responsibility for hiring him is mine and mine alone. That is the responsibilit...
David Rutley | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) Like many other Members, I am sure, I have been contacted by local newspapers which are concerned ab...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We do not want a new regulatory system to punish the innocent, as...
Wayne David | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) In The New York Times article of September last year it is stated:"““One former editor said Coulson ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) I discussed these allegations at the time and there was no proper foundation for them. That is not j...
Damian Hinds | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has rightly taken the lead in openness and transparency. Will he encourage the Op...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) We have set out since the election all the contacts we have had. It is now for others to follow suit...
Anas Sarwar | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) If the Prime Minister cannot name the company that did the vetting of Andy Coulson, can he confirm t...
Ian Murray | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) If the Prime Minister refuses point blank to tell the House the name of the company that vetted Andy...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) We will come on to discuss the issue of media regulation and media plurality, and the power of media...
Emily Thornberry | 531 c935 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for telling us that he will answer all questions, and I wonder, the...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) We did consult the devolved Administrations about the terms of reference and about the inquiry. A nu...
Nick Raynsford | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has repeatedly emphasised that he has no evidence of any complaint or questions a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to the hon. Gentleman is that I think transparency is probably the best answer. I w...
Pete Wishart | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is absolutely right to say that we need an all-party response to get to the botto...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) I will have to look very closely at what the right hon. Gentleman said, but the point that I made—I ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) I thought that it was ingenious to get that point into order, but my hon. Friend makes a very import...
Jim Sheridan | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) At yesterday's evidence session, Rupert Murdoch was asked about his frequent meetings with the Prime...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c935 (Link to this contribution) This article, like many others, was discussed, debated, and written about in the British press as we...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c935 (Link to this contribution) The point I am trying to make is this. I had no responsibility for the BSkyB takeover. I specificall...
Mike Hancock | 531 c935 (Link to this contribution) Putting aside what is appropriate and what is inappropriate, will the Prime Minister just say whethe...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) I set this out in great detail in the statement. Of course I have very regular meetings with senior ...
Alun Michael | 531 c935 (Link to this contribution) As Police Minister, my experience of briefings from the police was that they did not give one any op...
Speaker | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) Order. The matter to which the hon. Lady has referred is extremely serious, but whatever her strengt...
Penny Mordaunt | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) This House, the media and the whole country have been rightly focused on this issue, but is the Prim...
Anna Soubry | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) There must be widespread agreement across the House that it is imperative that the police and the me...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) I know my hon. Friend has experience of this from before she came into politics in her work as a law...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that with all the information that came out while Andy Coulson was working at No. 10 D...
Richard Burden | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) In response to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry), the Pr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) That is an incredibly important point. Police officers put their lives on the line for us every sing...
Lee Scott | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that while there are allegations against some officers in the Metrop...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that this inquiry extends to Scotland. As I said, we sent the draft terms of reference...
Cathy Jamieson | 531 c937 (Link to this contribution) I heard what the Prime Minister said about consulting the devolved Administrations. For the avoidanc...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c936-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point: while we should not believe automatically that those practi...
Nadhim Zahawi | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) In the Operation Motorman investigation, the Information Commissioner found 861 personal information...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) He was vetted. He had a basic level of vetting. He was not able to see the most secret documents in ...
Chuka Umunna | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) May I return to the responses the Prime Minister gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr ...
Edward Leigh | 531 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a real danger that this scandal will follow the pattern of so many others: first, bad b...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) The decision was mine. In politics, in the end, the buck stops here, with the Prime Minister. I made...
Helen Goodman | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) Last week, I asked the Prime Minister whether Andy Coulson had been through the official positive ve...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to do that. My hon. Friend makes a good point. That is why I was concerned to ensure ...
Greg Mulholland | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister was right to recall Parliament and is right to concentrate on the immediate quest...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) All those meetings are now published. The hon. Gentleman can look on the internet and see every sing...
Emma Reynolds | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) In her evidence yesterday, Rebekah Brooks stated that it was the Chancellor of the Exchequer's idea ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c938 (Link to this contribution) I think we can come on to that in the debate, but there are some lessons to be learned for competiti...
Ben Bradshaw | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) In the Prime Minister's conversations with the Murdochs, with Mrs Brooks and other News Corp people,...
Andrea Leadsom | 531 c928 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister share my concern that, at a time when this House is involved in a very impor...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c928 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly send out that message from the Dispatch Box, at the same time as thanking the right...
Chris Bryant | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz), who chairs the Home Affairs Committe...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) People should not shout the hon. Lady down, because she is making a very fair point, and frankly, it...
Jo Swinson | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) In the light of Mrs Brooks' revelations about quite how cosy and close the relationship was between ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) As Rebekah Brooks said yesterday in Parliament, there was never a conversation that could have been ...
Keith Vaz | 531 c928 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear it. The Home Affairs Select Committee published a unanimous report that pointed to...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) On the last point about the relationship with News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch and his family, I hav...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's decision to widen the terms of reference for the Leveson inquiry to i...
Speaker | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to hear the hon. Lady.
Louise Mensch | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that after the extraordinary events of the past few days, the last t...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. May I commend her for her questioning and what she did yesterday ...
Louise Mensch | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) And that a focus on Andy Coulson comes ill from the party of Tom Baldwin and Damian McBride?
Dennis Skinner | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) In the course of the past few minutes the Prime Minister has been asked a simple question twice and ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make is that that information, if it is germane to the police inquiry, needs to be...
James Clappison | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) After hearing the evidence that was given to the Home Affairs Committee, may I warmly welcome what m...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c930 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point and I do understand, when there are many thousands of people whose...
David Winnick | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) The motion we will debate today is about public confidence. Does the Prime Minister really feel that...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The fact is that we can go back over these reports and over the ...
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that having failed the victims in 2006, when the Met and the Governmen...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) It is very simple: tell the truth to the police and to the inquiry.
Paul Farrelly | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, Prime Minister, News International's defence seemed to have shifted from one rogue report...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point: we have set up the fullest possible inquiry—an inquiry that was n...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) I have answered the question and the point I would make is that unlike the party that the hon. Gentl...
Tobias Ellwood | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) Judging the mood of the Chamber, this might be an unpopular thing to say, but outside the Westminste...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) I never had one inappropriate conversation, and let me be clear: I completely took myself out of any...
Speaker | 531 c931 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House again needs to calm down. The question was properly heard and the Prime Minister's ...
Brian Binley | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) I will start again, Mr Speaker. The confidence of my constituents in Northampton in the political pr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) One thing that came out of the evidence yesterday was that whereas Rebekah Brooks was invited six ti...
David Lammy | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) Given the Butler review in the last Parliament, does the Prime Minister believe that such informalit...
Speaker | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to hear, and the House wants to hear, Mr Brian Binley.
Brian Binley | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) The confidence of my constituents—[Interruption.]
Philip Davies | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that in the past when the House of Commons has been faced with big iss...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. We need to ensure that as a House of Commons, as a Government and ...
Speaker | 531 c933 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is the mother of Parliaments, where we have free speech. This question will be heard and...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c926 (Link to this contribution) First, I accept the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes about transparency, and what I have se...
John Whittingdale | 531 c927 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that what people really care about are the appalling revelations of ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c927 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. We have to keep the victims of the hacking scandal at the absolute...
Jack Straw | 531 c926 (Link to this contribution) When the Prime Minister read of the extensive investigation in The New York Times on 1 September las...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) The question I ask myself all the way through is, ““Is there new information that Andy Coulson knew ...
Charlie Elphicke | 531 c927 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has said that contacts with the media since the general election will be publishe...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c928 (Link to this contribution) The point that I have just made is that this inquiry is specifically looking at the relationship bet...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 531 c927 (Link to this contribution) I must challenge the Prime Minister on the accuracy of one of his assertions. He said that nobody ra...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c927 (Link to this contribution) Let me pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, to what he has done and his role in this. The point I am m...
Keith Vaz | 531 c928 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the Prime Minister was awake at 5 o'clock this morning—
Speaker | 531 c924 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House is getting over-excited again. I am glad that it has calmed down and will want to l...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman asked about Andy Coulson. I remind him that no one has raised a s...
Speaker | 531 c925 (Link to this contribution) Order. Back Benchers are getting over-excited but will want to hear the answers given by their Prime...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c925 (Link to this contribution) Who was adviser to Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor? It was the right hon. Gentleman. On the act...
David Davis | 531 c925 (Link to this contribution) Under the previous Labour Government, when my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) was ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c925 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very good point. I think when we read the exchange of e-mails and see w...
Alan Johnson | 531 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary made a statement on Monday of more than 1,000 words, but the two words ““Neil”” a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c926 (Link to this contribution) No, I did not know that, and as I have said in relation to the work he did for Andy Coulson, I was u...
Simon Hughes | 531 c926 (Link to this contribution) I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Sir Paul Stephenson and thank him for the announcemen...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) I do. We want a free and vigorous press. Sometimes that is infuriating, but the idea of having ““Ofp...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) What I have said very clearly is that the Conservative party did not employ him, have a contract wit...
Daniel Byles | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister hear the recent remarks made by Lord Kinnock suggesting that as a result of t...
Sharon Hodgson | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give the House a categorical assurance that Andy Coulson, during his time wo...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the important point that Labour Members had plenty of opportunities over 13 yea...
Richard Ottaway | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) When it comes to restoring public confidence in the media and the police, does the Prime Minister ag...
Mike Gapes | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has said that Neil Wallis was never employed by the Conservative party. Will he c...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) We have to be frank. The previous Government were not on this at all and, frankly, the previous Oppo...
Stephen Metcalfe | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the leadership that he has shown in establishing such a w...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) I have made the point that it is not routine for people in Downing street to be given operational in...
Nick Smith | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) Prime Minister, can you tell us what specific advice the Deputy Prime Minister gave you against empl...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c951 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to answer—although I have answered this question already; I can set the answer to mu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) His reasons for resigning were well set out at the time. He felt that he was not able to go on doing...
Chris Williamson | 531 c949 (Link to this contribution) When Andy Coulson stayed at Chequers after his resignation, did the Prime Minister take the opportun...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The Opposition came here with a choice. They could have risen to the scale ...
Sarah Newton | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my frustration? We have been here for the best part of two hours, bu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) If you look at the evidence of Sir Paul Stephenson, whom I respect enormously and who did some very ...
Lord McCabe | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) Have Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates had to pay too high a price for Andy Coulson's second chance...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. What I would say about Ed Llewellyn is that he is—and Opposition ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 531 c950 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has shown in his statement that his private office has behaved with absolutely co...
Speaker | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the House that when Members refer to other Members they should do so by referrin...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot, but I think that the evidence speaks for itself.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) On the first point, we have the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is independent of th...
Hugh Bayley | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) Public confidence in the police has obviously been affected by the allegations of the bribery and co...
Andrew Selous | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) Government Members are right to say that all our constituents want us to move on from excessive focu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) I think we need to do a number of things. Obviously, there is a police investigation into corruption...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) Were there any meetings between Neil Wallis and Andy Coulson when Andy Coulson was working for the P...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) I do not have that information; I will have to get back to the hon. Gentleman. [Interruption.] Far w...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend says, the reason for setting up the inquiry is to get to the bottom of the s...
Tom Brake | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday's Select Committee hearings were heavy on entertainment but rather light when it came to h...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) No, it was not unusual at all. Andy Coulson was cleared in the normal way for special advisers. He w...
Owen Smith | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that it is highly unusual for such a senior adviser to the Pri...
David Evennett | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and the process that he has set in motion to investigate ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) That is hugely important. Thousands of police officers are doing a great job in London. They will be...
Mary Glindon | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister confirm whether any of his officials who are now in Downing street knew that...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c948 (Link to this contribution) All I can say to the hon. Lady is that the first I was told of this, to my knowledge, was on Sunday ...
Clive Efford | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) When the Prime Minister was Leader of the Opposition, was phone hacking discussed in any of his meet...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) I have had a range of meetings with John Yates over the past year, mostly about terrorism—[Interrupt...
Speaker | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) Order. I would like to accommodate many more colleagues on this important subject, but in order for ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it is worthy of the right hon. Lady to use terms like that. As I have said, I choose ...
Ann Clwyd | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) Two years ago in this House, I made this point:"““Given Mr. Coulson's dubious reputation, none of us...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure my hon. Friend about that. The terms of reference include the importance of a free pr...
Denis MacShane | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of transparency, will the Prime Minister now publish any e-mails between Andy Couls...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) The change in the terms of reference was a direct response to the 17 Select Committee Chairmen, beca...
William Cash | 531 c944 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister has referred several times to the future of the regulation...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I have. As the hon. Gentleman says, I was told about that, on Sunday. Neil Wallis was not emplo...
Margot James | 531 c943-4 (Link to this contribution) My constituents feel that relationships between News International and politicians have been too clo...
Grahame Morris | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, the Prime Minister told us that Neil Wallis, formerly deputy editor at the News of...
Tessa Munt | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will have had very little time to consider my question of last week about stoppin...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) The point that was made by a number of people, the Deputy Prime Minister included, was just to ask w...
Fiona Mactaggart | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) In reply to an earlier question, the Prime Minister said that the relationship between politicians a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Lady says makes a lot of sense. She should make those representations to the Winsor re...
Graham Stuart | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister ensure that the inquiry that he has announced into the unlawful practices in...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not see the read-across at all, because the elected police commissioner will w...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) I am looking at being as transparent as I possibly can be. We have not just the Freedom of Informati...
Peter Bone | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has rightly published the names of people who have stayed overnight at Chequers, ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) As long as Mrs Bone does not insist on a slumber party, that is a very good idea.
Chris Leslie | 531 c945 (Link to this contribution) What did the Deputy Prime Minister tell the Prime Minister about Andy Coulson's employment, and when...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point, when a lot of the sound and fury comes from the Labour ...
Rehman Chishti | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) Can the Prime Minister clarify and confirm that the law on media ownership was watered down under th...
Aidan Burley | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister receive any advice from the editor of The Guardian, from Lord Ashdown or from...
Kerry McCarthy | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) A number of times now, the Prime Minister has brushed off questions about the letter that my hon. Fr...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I am shown all letters that are sent to me by Members of Parliament, and I will do exactl...
Greg Hands | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister aware that under the Inquiries Act 2005, and contrary to the evidence given by...
Barry Gardiner | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's transparency in making available the 26 meetings with News Corps and ...
Julian Huppert | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) The Home Affairs Committee was given evidence about serious failings in corporate governance at the ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) We do not discuss intelligence issues in the House. If the hon. Gentleman wants to come and talk to ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the inquiry will look at that, but indeed, I think my hon. Friend will find that the ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) Can the Prime Minister confirm what the Metropolitan police has told the Home Secretary—that News In...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the Metropolitan police made that very clear to the Home Affairs Committee, but wh...
Claire O'Neill | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) Today is the anniversary of the moon landing—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady must be heard. I do not why people are saying ““Ooh”” when I call the hon. Memb...
Claire O'Neill | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) I agree, Mr Speaker. Today, people will know, is the anniversary of the moon landing, around which c...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) I could see the development of a beautiful relationship there, just for a brief moment. I think, on ...
Barry Sheerman | 531 c942 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Prime Minister on the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwic...
Caroline Lucas | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister immediately put on hold his plans to introduce elected police commissioners ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not agree with the hon. Lady. I think one of the things this whole episode shows is...
Gary Streeter | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his swift and decisive action in setting up these inquiries, which ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. We have to sort this issue out. It takes cross-party agreement to ...
Lord Cryer | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) On 8 July the Prime Minister said that he had commissioned a company to do a basic background check ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) We did hire a company to do a basic background check, and that is an entirely appropriate thing to d...
Speaker | 531 c941 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House will listen to Mr John Cryer.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make is that we have all got to be open about the fact that both Front Benches spe...
Speaker | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind the House that I have not been hiring people at all. I call Mr John Cryer.
Jack Dromey | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) To hire the hackers of Milly Dowler meant either that Andy Coulson was guilty of being complicit in ...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) In her evidence to the Select Committee yesterday, Rebekah Brooks spoke about the number of times th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) The discussion I had was to ensure that I was not involved in that decision, so I did not discuss it...
Sajid Javid | 531 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) The former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) said that ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) All I can say is that the former Prime Minister's idea to have the inquiry was never raised with the...
Speaker | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) Order. The exchanges will not continue until we have order. It is pretty straightforward.
Robert Buckland | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) There has been much talk of freedom, but freedom has to be under the law. Will my right hon. Friend ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) Of course I give that assurance. One of the things with which the committee of inquiry will have to ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 531 c939 (Link to this contribution) May I give the Prime Minister another opportunity to say on what occasions, with whom and where, in ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) Tempting as it would be, under our system politicians in one Government cannot order the publication...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) I do not question the hon. Lady's motives, but the point about this place is that people can watch w...
Chris Skidmore | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) As a matter of public record and as part of the public inquiry, will the Prime Minister ask Sir Gus ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) I think it is ingenious, after 136 questions, to come up with something entirely new, so I pay tribu...
Speaker | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister and all Members. I was advised that there were 138 Members, but we will s...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) The police must absolutely do that. They know that that is what everyone in this House wants and wha...
Daniel Kawczynski | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) One group of people that we have not discussed today is the hugely powerful trade union bosses, who ...
Ed Miliband | 531 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister was caught in a tragic conflict of loyalty between the standards and integrity th...
Andrew Miller | 531 c958 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said that it was only on Sunday that he found out about Mr Wallis's role, but oth...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c959 (Link to this contribution) That is my point. We have all engaged in this activity. The public know that we have all engaged in ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c960 (Link to this contribution) As someone once famously said, I'm enjoying this. The point is that my hon. Friend is right to draw ...
Baroness Bray of Coln | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that that does not square with the statement made by the right hon. ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c953 (Link to this contribution) I did not watch ““Newsnight””—I do not always catch it—but I think that it is important that the Bri...
Toby Perkins | 531 c957 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister seems to be suggesting that his appointment of Andy Coulson was a huge success. I...
Nigel Mills | 531 c956 (Link to this contribution) After a decade of spin, I welcome the Prime Minister's attempt to sort out the relationship between ...
Robert Halfon | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) While recognising the disgraceful nature of the phone hacking scandal, will my right hon. Friend res...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: people do want us to get on with the other issues, particularly at a time w...
Karen Bradley | 531 c934 (Link to this contribution) Many constituents have contacted me regarding this important issue, and they will join me in welcomi...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c936 (Link to this contribution) One of the outcomes of all of this is that there will be a lot more of leaving everybody alone.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c929 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make to all hon. Members is that the public want us to sort this out, and one of t...
David Lammy | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) Rebekah Brooks yesterday described the Prime Minister as a friend and a neighbour. We heard from Jer...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c932 (Link to this contribution) My answer to the hon. Gentleman is yes. Which Government set up a judicial inquiry? This one. Which ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c924 (Link to this contribution) I say to the right hon. Gentleman: stop hunting for feeble conspiracy theories and start rising to e...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c946 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the inquiry can look at that. If there is evidence of illegal activity, some very big...
Michael Ellis | 531 c962 (Link to this contribution) The Home Affairs Committee issued a report at 5 o'clock this morning that was critical of police who...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c955 (Link to this contribution) There is quite a contrast—let me put it like this—between the speech that the right hon. Gentleman m...
Brandon Lewis | 531 c947 (Link to this contribution) Last week we heard an impassioned speech by Gordon Brown in which he outlined his concerns about hac...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) No, but I have received quite a number of representations from hon. Members, and quite a few from ot...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c943 (Link to this contribution) I believe that my hon. Friend is right, and this does go to the point about the speech made last wee...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 531 c940 (Link to this contribution) We do still have in this country the idea that you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Now, as...
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Criminal investigation Corruption Conduct Career development Sky Ethics Prime Minister Police Newspaper press Mergers Ministers Media Metropolitan Police Resignations Telephone tapping Conservative Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis Politicians News Corporation Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry Coulson, Andy Gloucester, Bishop of News of the World Stephenson, Paul Wallis, Neil
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