Exhibit 1249 ยท Parliamentary select committee report and evidence
Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Seventh Report of Session 2006-07, Self-regulation of the press (HC 375), with oral evidence
Witnesses representing the press maintained that such practices were not, however, widespread, and that one bad apple did not mean that the whole barrel was rotten.
Committee report on press self-regulation after the Goodman and Mulcaire convictions. Records the evidence of the News International chairman on 6 March 2007 and the press witnesses' position that the practice was not widespread.
- Source
- House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee
- Date
- 11 July 2007
- Quoted from
- Report, para. 18, p. 12
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmcumeds/375/375.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Oral evidence, 6 March 2007, Q95 (Ev 40): Chairman: 'You carried out a full, rigorous internal inquiry, and you are absolutely convinced that Clive Goodman was the only person who knew what was going on?' Mr Hinton (Chairman of News International): 'Yes, we have and I believe he was the only person, but that investigation, under the new editor, continues.' Para. 21 records the committee noting the assurances of the News International chairman that Mr Goodman 'was acting wholly without authorisation'. Read via a Wayback copy of the parliament.uk PDF; the live site returned a block page.