Andrew Dilnot, Chair of the body charged with upholding the quality of the UK's Official Statistics - the UK Statistics Authority - has today written to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to ask that he and the Conservative Party "clarify" claims both made about increases to the NHS budget since the Coalition took office.

What criteria has Leveson set out for the new regulatory solution?
It should first and foremost be effective, enjoying the support and trust of both the industry and public. This means that it needs to be seen to be independent of the press, so that the industry is not “marking its own homework.” It should be universally adopted by the major news publishers, and capable of adapting to changes in technology. It should also have a clear set of standards and the means to ensure compliance with them.

Lord Justice Leveson’s report should be judged by the standard Alan Rusbridger set at the beginning. It needs to “find ways of bolstering all the good that flows from the best journalism while cutting out the worst.”

It is an opportunity to make journalism better, more effective, and better protected.

"A combination of the cuts, female underemployment (draining the talent pool still further of women who might one day move into senior roles) and the scarcity of females of diverse backgrounds at the top of Britain's most important institutions could, for the first time in decades, put the glacial rate of progress into very sharp reverse."

Yvonne Roberts, Guardian, November 25, 2012