Part of Legal Deposit Libraries Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:00 pm on 4 June 2003.
Notwithstanding that point, those who do research on a historical moment 50 years ago will get out copies of The Times and The Guardian. They will probably analyse the physical copies and have terrible asthma by the end of the day. [Interruption.] Yes, it might be on fiche, but it depends. A local newspaper is more likely to be the physical thing, but The Times and The Guardian are more likely to be on fiche. However, those who want to analyse the politics of last week at some point in the future will be unable to do so without, for instance, seeing what was on BBC Online. The BBC has no strategy for ensuring that such information is part of the intellectual moment and without it future historians who do their research about today will find it difficult to do a full and proper job.