Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 June 2002.
Is Ofcom, whether in England or Scotland, expected in its competition mode to offer any hope to small educational software firms, such as one in my constituency, which are about to find their markets swamped by £150 million worth of BBC educational software? Can anything be done to allay their fears that unfair competition will be practised by the BBC?