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Cameron to unveil phone hacking inquiry

13th July 2011

Prime minister David Cameron is set to outline to MPs the terms of a major judicial inquiry into the hacking scandal.

Cameron will make a Commons statement ahead of a debate in which the Conservatives and Lib Dems are set to back a Labour motion urging Rupert Murdoch to withdraw his bid for BSkyB.

It comes after all three party leaders met at Downing Street on Tuesday to discuss the phone hacking inquiries, lasting an hour.

Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg all agreed that Rupert Murdoch should withdraw his bid to takeover BSkyB.

The statement will follow prime minister's questions, which is set to be dominated by the issue, and precede an opposition day debate on News Corp's planned takeover of BSkyB.

Ahead of PMQs, MPs will set questions to international development minister Andrew Mitchell and his ministerial team.

Conservative MP Matthew Hancock will lead an adjournment debate on offshore gambling and the horseracing levy.

In Westminster Hall, Susan Elan Jones MP will discuss the benefits of high speed rail.

On committee corridor, the defence committee continues looking into the Military Covenant and the treatment of wounded service personnel.

And Scottish secretary Michael Moore appears before the Scottish affairs committee.

In the Lords, peers will set questions to the government on the Common Fisheries Policy, fuel poverty, devolution to England and the Immigration Advisory Service.

The upper chamber will then consider the Commons verdict on their amendments to the European Union Bill and will then move to the Police Reform Bill.

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