Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Foster of Bath Excerpts

Thursday 16th June 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Vaizey]

That is exactly what we intend to do.

[Mr Don Foster (Bath) (LD)]

Further to the Minister’s earlier answer, he will recall that Liberal Democrats argued that the web blocking proposals simply would not work. Has he come to the same conclusion, and will he accept that it is vital to find ways to protect the internet protocol of creators from illegal websites? Will he tell us what will happen on that?

[Mr Vaizey]

As I have said, we will announce our proposals shortly. We asked Ofcom to prepare an independent report on the effectiveness of technical measures to block websites, which we will publish at the same time as our conclusions.