{"id":93587,"date":"2012-05-04T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:27:22","slug":"leveson-inquiry-government-core-participant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=93587","title":{"rendered":"Government to apply for core participant status at Leveson Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 15:21 — Eight government ministers have today been granted core participant status at the Leveson Inquiry, meaning they will have advance access to evidence and the right to seek redactions of other statements submitted. Lord Justice Leveson rejected the application by the government as a body, but granted individual CP status to David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Vince Cable, Ken Clarke, George Osborne, Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove, who <\/strong><\/em>will be known as “government core participants<\/em>“.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The coalition government will this afternoon make an application to be a core participant at the Leveson Inquiry<\/a>, in a special hearing announced today.<\/p>\n

If granted, this would mean that the government would have advance access to written statements and attachments submitted in module three of the Inquiry, which is examining relations between the press and politicians.<\/p>\n

The Inquiry states that individual or an organisation can\u00a0become a core participant if they are deemed by Lord Justice Leveson to meet one or more of the following criteria:<\/p>\n