Part of Crime and Policing Bill - Committee (4th Day) (Continued) – in the House of Lords at 5:30 pm on 27 November 2025.
Baroness Berger
Labour
5:30,
27 November 2025
My noble friend is making really important comments in this regard, but on the specific issue of ofcom, perhaps fuelling much of the concern across the Committee are the comments we have heard from Ofcom. I refer to a briefing from the Molly Rose Foundation, which I am sure other noble Lords have received, which says that uncertainty has been “actively fuelled” by the regulator Ofcom, which has told the Molly Rose Foundation that it intends to maintain “tactical ambiguity” about how the Act applies. That is the very issue that unites us in our concern.
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