What the DCMS committee was told about payments to Andy Coulson

According to Polly Curtis at the Guardian, a Conservative party source, said on 12 July: “We can give categorical assurances that he wasn’t paid by any other source”

Then in oral evidence to the DCMS Select Committee:

Q268 Mr Sanders: The New Statesman carried a story last week that News International subsidised Andy Coulson’s wages after he left your employ. Can you shed any light on that?

James Murdoch: I have no knowledge of Andy Coulson’s wages after he left the company’s employment.

Q574 Mr Sanders: Did you approve the subsidising of Andy Coulson’s salary after he left News of the World?
Rebekah Brooks: Again, that’s not true, so I didn’t approve it.
And now, this:
Coulson got hundreds of thousands of pounds from News Int:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14624167

4 comments ↓

#1 Ste on 08.22.11 at 11:31 pm

Gotcha! Again!

#2 Gary Hay on 08.22.11 at 11:32 pm

Who’s been a naughty boy then? Ho ho ho! Can’t wait to see the DCMS select committees upcoming invitees

#3 lizstev on 08.22.11 at 11:39 pm

This is so sweet! Cameron is for the high jump – yahoo!

#4 @steand on 08.23.11 at 12:14 am

The simple fact that someone on well over £200,000 a year needs his wages “subsidising” tells me everything I need to know about Cameron and Coulson.

There are plenty of frontline NHS staff who wouldn’t mind having their wages “subsidised”.

Sickening. Again.

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