Part of Office of Communications Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 5 February 2002.
It is always intriguing that when Governments change, files do not pass across. If we return to the files that existed before May 1997, some figures emerge. Even in those days, I took an interest in what it would take to facilitate the last analogue television sets being switched off. Analogue cannot be switched off if a significant number of people in the country are still clinging to it.