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News Reporting (Restrictions)

Volume 224: debated on Monday 10 May 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what proposals he has to review the laws which impose restrictions on news reporting.

I am not aware of any statutory restrictions on news reporting which do not bear equally on other forms of publication. Editors and journalists are subject to the law in the same way as any other individual.