§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make it his policy to set up an independent press authority. [61430]
§ Janet AndersonThe Government prefer self-regulation, overseen by the independent Press Complaints Commission, to any form of statutory regulation. An independent press authority set up by Government would be statutory regulation of the press, and the Government, in the absence of evidence of a collapse of standards, would be unwilling to consider undermining the authority of the Press Complaints Commission in this way.