House of Commons - Communities and Local Government Committee

Communities and Local Government Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
Proposed Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 January 2011.

Oral Evidence

Taken before the Communities and Local Government Committee

on Monday 6 December 2010

Members present:

Mr Clive Betts (Chair)	Mike Freer
Bob Blackman	Stephen Gilbert
Simon Danczuk	David Heyes
Clive Efford	Mark Pawsey

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CONTENTS

Examination of Witnesses

Witnesses: Richard Kemp, Vice-Chair, Local Government Association, Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney, Chair, London Councils, and John Findlay, Chief Executive, National Association of Local Councils, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-38

Witnesses: Roy Greenslade, Professor of Journalism, City University, London, and media commentator, Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists, Simon Edgley, Managing Director, Trinity Mirror Southern, and Lynne Anderson, Communications Director, The Newspaper Society, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

39-79

Witness: Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Local Government, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

80-146