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Exhibit 1030

Mirror Group Newspapers plc: Investigation, Lords oral question

Exhibit 1030 ยท Parliamentary record

Mirror Group Newspapers plc: Investigation, Lords oral question

The inspectors rightly took the view that they should not undertake inquiries covering the same ground as those covered by the court cases.

The Government minister states that the inspectors' investigation into Mirror Group Newspapers (report published 30 March 2001) interviewed 180 witnesses, that the accounting inspector's team cost GBP 7 million and the legal inspector and legal costs GBP 1.5 million (GBP 8.5 million excluding VAT), and that the inspectors did not cover the same ground as the court cases.

Source
UK House of Lords (Hansard), HL Deb 8 May 2001 vol 625 cc896-899
Date
8 May 2001
Quoted from
HL Deb 8 May 2001 vol 625 c898, answer by Lord Sainsbury of Turville
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/2001/may/08/mirror-group-newspapers-plc-investigation
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
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Note
The 2001 DTI report itself and the Serious Fraud Office trial record (acquittals January 1996) were not retrieved; the trial outcome is known here only from news reports.

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Finding INF-3.5
Primary record On 8 May 2001 a minister told the House of Lords that the inspectors' report on Mirror Group Newspapers was published on 30 March 2001, that the investigation interviewed 180 witnesses at a cost of GBP 8.5 million excluding VAT, and that the inspectors took the view that they should not undertake inquiries covering the same ground as the court cases.