Culture Secretary Sajid Javid will address regional political journalists at a lunch later this month.

Sajid Javid, pictured left, will talk at the lunch held by the Newspaper Conference, made up of London-based correspondents of regional press titles.

The event, to be held on 27 January, will be chaired by Archant Anglia’s political editor Annabelle Dickson.

In November Chancellor George Osborne spoke at the Conference’s annual dinner, during which he express the importance of a free press.