Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 2 March 2009.
Andy Burnham
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
2:30,
2 March 2009
I am not sure what I can say; I am not sure what point the hon. Gentleman is making. There could not be a more focused process than the "Digital Britain" process, overseen by Lord Carter. It was precisely because of that issue that the Prime Minister appointed Lord Carter to conduct that detailed piece of work, which looks at the content industry and at infrastructure—and I did not hear any calls for that from the Opposition at the time. We will have the final recommendations in the spring, or perhaps—
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