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Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill

moved Amendment No. 12: 12: Clause 1, page 2, line 2, after ““persons”” insert ““, including persons who have moved to a specified region that has completed the digital switchover scheme from a specified region that has not completed the digital switchover scheme,”” The noble Lord said: The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that people who are entitled to the help scheme and who move to a new area that has completed digital switchover will still receive the benefits of the help scheme if they move from an area that has not yet begun digital switchover. We on these Benches are concerned that people who are eligible for the scheme could miss out on help just because they have moved or are moving to a new area. Although I do not believe that this would be a major consideration for people in deciding whether to move to a new area, it may well be something that they do not think about when they are arranging the move. Such a situation can be illustrated with the example of a partially sighted student who is eligible for help in his university town where switchover has not yet taken place but who, after graduating, gets a job in a town that has completed digital switchover. That student might well fall between the cracks and that would be an unfortunate state of affairs. I am sure that the Minister can think of many other cases of people moving where that could happen, and the amendment is an attempt to seek assurance about those kinds of circumstances. I beg to move.