Media: Ownership

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Excerpts

Thursday 11th November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Rawlings]

After being examined by the Competition Commission and Ofcom, it will go to DG4 of the European Commission. Only when the Secretary of State has heard the representations from all those bodies will he make the final decision. It has to go through all those three stages, which will take until the end of the year.

[Baroness Jones of Whitchurch]

My Lords, will the noble Baroness clarify something? If Ofcom’s position is so secure, why is it on the endangered list in the Public Bodies Bill, as has been referred to?