Digital Economy Bill [ Lords]

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 6:50 pm on 6 April 2010.

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Photo of Siôn Simon Siôn Simon Labour, Birmingham, Erdington 6:50, 6 April 2010

No, it does not criminalise anybody; all it does is simply seek to enforce the existing law. We should, however, be very careful that the Bill does not have the unintended consequence of bringing about the end of public wi-fi. I was assured by the experts in the various Departments involved in this legislation that there were clearly existing technical measures that made it perfectly possible to run public wi-fi with these measures.