Clause 7 - Electronic communications code: the need to promote growth

Part of Growth and Infrastructure Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:45 pm on 29 November 2012.

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Photo of Ian Murray Ian Murray Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) 12:45, 29 November 2012

The Minister commented on the completely artificial date of 31 December 2015; that is a slightly more erroneous artificial date than the artificially created date of April 2018. We can argue about why 2018, and not 2015, has been chosen and about whether it is artificial. I am slightly comforted by the Minister’s response, and I will look at the specifications he mentioned.

I am not comforted by the Minister’s putting on the record that I love the said publication. I will check that it was not the New Statesman, because I have a seed of doubt—it was perhaps not The Spectator,but the New Statesman that I was reading—and I will correct the record this afternoon, if I may, Mr Davies. However, on the basis of the consolation and comfort I have had from the Minister, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.