Asked by: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 26 January (HL Deb, col 1152), which two cases remain outstanding in respect of preventing Leveson part 2 from taking place.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
The Crown Prosecution Service is at present giving investigative advice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in respect of two pre charge investigations, which fall under Operation Tuleta and Operation Elveden.
In addition, the CPS has also received Victims' Right to Review correspondence in relation to its recent decision not to charge ten individual journalists who worked at Mirror Group Newspapers for allegations of phone hacking at Mirror Group Newspapers, as part of Operation Golding. This correspondence is currently being considered.