The right hon. Gentleman is not making much progress. He is implying that broadcasters are under regulation but there is no chilling effect. The description of a chilling effect, raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp), is the expected impact of section 40, under which anybody would be able to take a newspaper to court and get costs awarded against the newspaper even if they did not have anything in their case. The broadcasters do not have to deal with anything like that. On the point about things being brought to light, will he confirm that the case of Mr Ford, which he raised and was raised in an argument for Leveson 2, was in fact raised in the original Leveson inquiry and was therefore covered?
Data Protection Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Matt Hancock
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 May 2018.
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and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Data Protection Bill [Lords].
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