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News International and Phone-Hacking House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee News International and Phone-hacking Eleventh Report of Session 2010–12 Volume II Oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 April 2012 HC 903-II Published on 27 April 2012 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £22.50 The Culture, Media and Sport Committee The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies. Current membership Mr John Whittingdale MP (Conservative, Maldon) (Chair) Dr Thérèse Coffey MP (Conservative, Suffolk Coastal) Damian Collins MP (Conservative, Folkestone and Hythe) Philip Davies MP (Conservative, Shipley) Paul Farrelly MP (Labour, Newcastle-under-Lyme) Louise Mensch MP (Conservative, Corby) Steve Rotheram MP (Labour, Liverpool, Walton) Mr Adrian Sanders MP (Liberal Democrat, Torbay) Jim Sheridan MP (Labour, Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Mr Gerry Sutcliffe MP (Labour, Bradford South) Mr Tom Watson MP (Labour, West Bromwich East) Powers The committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet at www.parliament.uk/parliament.uk/cmscom. A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is at the back of this volume. The Reports of the Committee, the formal minutes relating to that report, oral evidence taken and some of the written evidence are available in a printed volume. Additional written evidence is published on the internet only. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Elizabeth Flood (Clerk), Sarah Heath (Second Clerk), Victoria Butt (Senior Committee Assistant), Keely Bishop/Alison Pratt (Committee Assistants) and Jessica Bridges-Palmer (Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6188; the Committee’s email address is [email protected] Witnesses Thursday 24 March 2011 Page John Yates QPM, Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Ev 1 Tuesday 19 July 2011 Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, and James Murdoch, Chairman, News International Ev 16 Rebekah Brooks, former Chief Executive, News International Ev 41 Tuesday 6 September 2011 Jonathan Chapman, former Director of Legal Affairs, News International, and Daniel Cloke, former Group HR Director, News International Ev 58 Tom Crone, former Legal Manager, News Group Newspapers, and Colin Myler, former Editor, News of the World Ev 71 Wednesday 19 October 2011 Julian Pike, Partner, Farrer & Co. Ev 96 Mark Lewis, Partner, Taylor Hampton Solicitors Ev 108 Monday 24 October 2011 Les Hinton, Former Executive Chairman, News International Ev 119 Thursday 10 November 2011 James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (International), News Corporation Ev 131 List of printed written evidence 1 John Yates QPM, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Ev 159 2 Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions Ev 161 3 John Yates QPM, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Ev 165: 166 4 Rebekah Brooks, CEO, News International Ev 166: 167: 231 5 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Rebekah Brooks, CEO, News International Ev 167 6 James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation Ev 167: 168: 169: 172: 236: 265: 273: 283: 285: 287 7 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation Ev 168: 188: 264: 281: 284 8 Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation Ev 168 9 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation Ev 168 10 Sly Bailey, Chief Executive, Trinity Mirror Plc Ev 169 11 Louise Mensch MP Ev 170 12 Harbottle & Lewis Ev 170 13 Jonathan Chapman Ev 171 14 Rebekah Brooks, former CEO, News International Ev 190: 222: 266 15 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Rebekah Brooks, former CEO, News International Ev 190: 222: 223: 267 16 Jonathan Chapman Ev 190 17 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Jonathan Chapman Ev 197 18 Colin Myler Ev 197: 238: 255: 257 19 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Colin Myler Ev 198: 238: 256 20 Tom Crone Ev 199: 253: 268 21 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Tom Crone Ev 201: 254: 270 22 Harbottle & Lewis LLP Ev 202: 204 23 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Harbottle & Lewis Ev 219 24 Baroness Buscombe, Chairman, Press Complaints Commission Ev 221 25 Mark Lewis, Taylor Hampton Solicitors Ev 221: 236 26 Linklaters LLP Ev 221: 231 27 Daniel Cloke Ev 223 28 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Daniel Cloke Ev 224 29 Anthony Burton, Partner, Simons Muirhead & Burton Ev 225 30 Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Stuart Kuttner Ev 225 31 Farrer & Co Solicitors Ev 225: 239 32 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Farrer & Co Ev 227 33 Lawrence Abramson, Partner, Fladgate LLP Ev 227 34 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Lawrence Abramson, Partner, Fladgate LLP Ev 228 35 BCL Burton Copeland Ev 228 36 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to BCL Burton Copeland Ev 229 37 Les Hinton, former Executive Chairman, News International Ev 229 38 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Les Hinton, former Executive Chairman, News International Ev 230 39 DLA Piper UK LLP Ev 230 40 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Andy Coulson Ev 230 41 James Saunders, Saunders Law Ltd Ev 234 42 Linklaters LLP, on behalf of the Management and Standards Committee Ev 234: 254: 263: 271: 273: 280: 282: 284: 291 43 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Linklaters LLP Ev 235 44 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Mark Lewis, Taylor Hampton Solicitors Ev 236 45 Michael Silverleaf QC Ev 237 46 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Michael Silverleaf QC Ev 237 47 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Julian Pike, Partner, Farrer & Co Ev 252: 259 48 Julian Pike, Farrer & Co Ev 259 49 Neville Thurlbeck Ev 260 50 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Neville Thurlbeck Ev 262 51 Surrey Police Ev 274 52 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Surrey Police Ev 280 53 Metropolitan Police Ev 281: 286 54 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to the Metropolitan Police Ev 282: 286 55 Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to Linklaters LLP, on behalf of the Management and Standards Committee Ev 283: 284: 291 56 Mark Thomson, Atkins Thomson Solicitors Ev 292 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SO] Processed: [26-04-2012 10:37] Job: 012695 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/012695/012695_o001_MP HC 903-i corrected.xml Culture, Media and Sport Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Thursday 24 March 2011 Members present: Mr John Whittingdale (Chair) Dr Thérèse Coffey Mr Adrian Sanders Damian Collins Jim Sheridan Philip Davies Mr Tom Watson Paul Farrelly ________________ Examination of Witness Witness: John Yates QPM, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service, gave evidence. Q1 Chair: Good morning. This session is a follow- During my evidence, I set out the very prescriptive up to the Committee’s report on press standards, definition of Section 1 of the Regulatory Investigative privacy and libel. It comes after the Adjournment Powers Act, RIPA. It is what has become known as debate held by Chris Bryant on the floor of the House mobile phone voicemail hacking. Principally, I recently, in which he suggested that Assistant explained to the Committee that to prove the offence Commissioner Yates might have misled both this of interception under that Section, the prosecution had Committee and the Home Affairs Committee. Acting to show that a voicemail had been intercepted prior to Deputy Commissioner Yates then wrote to me it being listened to by the intended recipient. On this suggesting that he took these allegations seriously, and basis, I advised that there may in fact only have been that we might wish to invite him to come back to the 10 to 12 victims against whom we could actually Committee in order to allay Chris Bryant’s and our prove an offence. concerns, and it is on that basis that I am pleased Mr Bryant then stated that “never at any stage during to welcome Acting Deputy Commissioner Yates this the prosecution of Goodman and Mulcaire did morning. I should also say that the Committee is anybody from the CPS advise the Metropolitan Police aware that there is an ongoing police investigation that that the law should be interpreted in such a way”. That could lead to criminal charges, and of course there are is not correct. I have provided you a letter today, civil cases under way as well; we will bear that in which I sent to both this Committee and the other mind during our questioning this morning. Committees that have an interest, that sets out in detail Deputy Commissioner Yates, when you appeared the nature and the extent of the CPS and leading before this Committee in September 2009, we counsel’s advice that was provided in this case.
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