Clause 2 - Initial function of OFCOM
Office of Communications Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Vale of York, Conservative)
My hon. Friend raises an important point—that we may consider later at some length. The Minister has been given notice that we want to raise it, so he and his Department will have time to reflect and respond.
The Government assure us that Ofcom will not be given powers to exercise any regulatory functions that relate to the communications sector. Those functions
will be set out in the communications Bill. However, I am not entirely sure what Ofcom will be doing if it is to share, to a certain extent, regulatory functions by taking in some board members on secondment from the existing regulators.