Clause 4 - Functions of existing regulators
Office of Communications Bill [Lords]
12:45 pm
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Vale of York, Conservative)
I find that intervention almost unbelievable because we have been waiting for the paving Bill, let alone the main Bill, for some time. I cannot believe that the DCMS, whatever its failings, has not thought about and prepared for precisely those matters.
I repeat that there is a huge gap between the Bill and the promises made and expectations raised in respect of the implementation process by chapter 9 of the White Paper. There has been a huge failure to deliver on the part of the Government and, I regret to say, the Minister. The Committee's responsibility is to analyse and scrutinise the Bill, but we have not been able to do so because he will not share the information with us, which I find deeply regrettable.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 4 ordered to stand part of the Bill.