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19 July 2011
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Rebekah Brooks: "Of course there were mistakes made in the past"
News International acted "quickly and decisively" in dealing with the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, the company's former chief executive Rebekah Brooks has told MPs.
The ex-NoW editor said the firm moved to settle civil cases when claims by actress Sienna Miller emerged in 2010.
Mrs Brooks said she was "shocked" at claims her journalists had hacked murder victim Milly Dowler's phone.
She told the media committee she was always told hacking claims were untrue.
"We had been told by people at News of the World at the time - they consistently denied any of these allegations in various internal investigations," she said.
"It was only when we saw the Sienna Miller documentation that we realised the severity of the situation."
Mrs Brooks's evidence came after her former boss Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News International's parent company News Corporation, and his son James, appeared before the committee.
The public have been excluded from the hearing after an attempted assault on Rupert Murdoch.
Mrs Brooks also told the Commons media committee she had never sanctioned payments to the police.
Mrs Brooks was asked whether payments to the police were widespread across newspapers or confined to News International.
She said a 2003 statement to MPs that she had referred to a "widely held belief" as opposed to practice, she explains.
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.Rebekah Brooks: "Of course there were mistakes made in the past"
News International acted "quickly and decisively" in dealing with the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, the company's former chief executive Rebekah Brooks has told MPs.
The ex-NoW editor said the firm moved to settle civil cases when claims by actress Sienna Miller emerged in 2010.
Mrs Brooks said she was "shocked" at claims her journalists had hacked murder victim Milly Dowler's phone.
She told the media committee she was always told hacking claims were untrue.
"We had been told by people at News of the World at the time - they consistently denied any of these allegations in various internal investigations," she said.
"It was only when we saw the Sienna Miller documentation that we realised the severity of the situation."
Mrs Brooks's evidence came after her former boss Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News International's parent company News Corporation, and his son James, appeared before the committee.
The public have been excluded from the hearing after an attempted assault on Rupert Murdoch.
Mrs Brooks also told the Commons media committee she had never sanctioned payments to the police.
Mrs Brooks was asked whether payments to the police were widespread across newspapers or confined to News International.
She said a 2003 statement to MPs that she had referred to a "widely held belief" as opposed to practice, she explains.
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