Clause 5 - Winding up of OFCOM on abandonment etc.
Office of Communications Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
Dr Kim Howells (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Pontypridd, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman is right to ask that question. The regulators would remain because no transfer of power would have taken place. The present five regulators, including the Department of Trade and Industry, will remain, and no powers will be transferred because Ofcom will exist only as a body, not a regulator.