If she will make a statement on the roll-out of digital television in North Yorkshire.

The vast majority of households in North Yorkshire can, with the appropriate equipment, receive digital television services. The Government are committed to ensuring that at digital switchover everyone in the UK who can currently get the main public service broadcasting channels in analogue form can receive them on digital without needing to pay a subscription.

I wonder why the Vale of York, which is covered by both Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television, will be among the last areas to be switched over, and why, given that the Treasury will benefit directly from the proceeds of the auction of analogue spectrum, the BBC is to pay for the switchover?

The order in which regions will be turned off was decided by Ofcom in consultation with technical experts and was not really a matter for Government. It would be inefficient and a waste of taxpayers' money to continue to broadcast in both analogue and digital format. Of course, that money is not for the Treasury but for the taxpayer, and looking after the taxpayers' interests is exactly what we are doing.