Compliance Reports and Senior Responsibility
In addition to Recommendation 10 above, a new regulatory body should consider requiring: (a) that newspapers publish compliance reports in their own pages to ensure that their readers have easy access to the information; and (b) as proposed by Lord Black, that a named senior individual within each title should have responsibility for compliance and standards.
How was this assessed?
Response
Accepted in Part
Response
Accepted in PartThe Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted "the principles that Lord Justice Leveson has laid out" for independent self-regulation, including "an independent board, a standards code, an arbitration service and the power to demand up-front, prominent apologies and impose million-pound fines." However, he rejected statutory underpinning, expressing "serious concerns and misgivings" about crossing "the Rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into the law of the land." The Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press was granted on 30 October 2013, establishing the Press Recognition Panel as the recognition body. IPSO was established in September 2014 but has not sought Royal Charter recognition. IMPRESS was recognised by the PRP in October 2016. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/david-cameron-statement-in-response-to-the-leveson-inquiry-report
Published Evidence
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IPSO does not require newspapers to publish compliance reports in their own pages. Some publishers have named individuals responsible for standards but this is not consistently applied or monitored across all subscribing publications.
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Neither element of this recommendation (in-page compliance reports or named senior compliance individuals) has been consistently implemented.