Sentences with phrase «culture select committee»

In May 2012, the Commons culture select committee accused Hinton of misleading it during its inquiries into the phone - hacking scandal.

Tom Watson, the Labour MP and member of the Commons culture select committee, had raised concerns that the money could have amounted to an undeclared donation to the party.

During a three - hour grilling at the culture select committee, disrupted by a protester throwing a plate of shaving foam, the once all - powerful News Corp chairman and chief executive told MPs: «I am not responsible.»

That committee [then called the standards and privileges committee] opened its original inquiry into the affair in July 2012, following the accusation made by the culture select committee, chaired by John Whittingdale (now the culture secretary), about the three men having lied.

Tory MP and culture select committee chairman Damian Collins (pictured in Parliament) said he was «disappointed» by Dominic Cummings» refusal to give evidence

The former Labour cabinet minister has been widely expected to take over from Boaden and his political background has led Tories including John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, and Damian Collins, a member of the culture select committee, to argue that his appointment could jeopardise the BBC's impartiality.

Damian Collins, chairman of the culture select committee, has repeatedly requested that Mr Cummings come before his committee to answer questions about how the campaign was run.

A Thatcherite who voted against equal marriage, he moves in after a stint as chair of the culture select committee.

Before the election he was chairman of the Commons culture select committee.

The exchange between Andy Coulson and Tom Watson MP when Coulson gave evidence to the culture select committee on 21 July 2009:

Signatories include the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission Lord Wakeham, the former speaker Lady Boothroyd, the chairman of the culture select committee, John Whittingdale, and all his Conservative colleagues on the committee.

The culture select committee met on Tuesday morning and agreed to invite Lord Justice Leveson, David Cameron, Lord Hunt and representatives of the phone hacking victims to give evidence to the committee.

John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons culture select committee, told Jon Snow that he was concerned by the allegations and that the committee would want to «ask News International about the payments».

Wylie told the culture select committee of MPs about how wild rumors ran rife through Cambridge Analytica's (CA) office following the death of Dan Muresan, who was found dead in his hotel room in Kenya in 2012.

Facebook has since said it would no longer seek access, but the chair of the culture select committee, Damian Collins, expressed his alarm: «The concern would have been, were they removing information or evidence which could have been vital to the investigation?

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie's testimony before the culture select committee of MPs has been nothing short of shocking.