Recommendation L63: ICO Adopt DPP Guidelines
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
The Information Commissioner's Office should immediately adopt the Guidelines for Prosecutors on assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2012.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry asked the Information Commissioner's Office to adopt prosecution guidelines for media cases. The office stated in January 2013 that, by the time the Inquiry's report was published, it had already endorsed and adopted the September 2012 guidelines issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on assessing public interest (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013).
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Government response
As noted above, the ICO had, by the time Lord Justice Leveson’s Report was published, already endorsed and adopted the CPS Guidelines for Prosecutors on assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2012.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Information Commissioner has been found in the sources searched (last checked 24 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
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- Information Commissioner
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