Clause 1 - The Office of Communications
Office of Communications Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Vale of York, Conservative)
Miss Widdecombe, welcome to the chairmanship of this Committee; I look forward to serving under you.
The amendments would replace the original title, ''Office of Communications'', with a new title, ''Communications Regulation Commission''. The proposed changes reflect the fact that the Government intend to replace five regulators—the Office of Telecommunications, the Independent Television Commission, the Broadcasting Standards
Commission, the Radio Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency—with one overall regulator. Hon. Members will notice that amendment No. 2 seeks to leave out ''Office of Communications'' in the title and replace it with the new wording, ''Communications Regulation Commission''.