Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2015 to Question 223733 on telecommunications, who made the oversight referred to in that Answer; and when and by whom that oversight was discovered.

Policy officials published the Impact Assessment under the Secretary of State's name. Once the oversight became clear at Committee Stage of the Infrastructure Bill on 15^th January 2015, the Department acted immediately to rectify this and published the document on the 16^th January 2015.