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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I thank the Minister for that illuminating reply as people were looking for a certain amount of reassurance in this area. I have to admit I still do not understand why the Secretary of State is tying his hands to Ofcom. There may be a more suitable body in the future. We do not know what other bodies there might be even in the next three to five years, so this is not exactly future proofing. The Minister made an interesting point which I failed to make. He quite correctly spotted that there may be some inappropriateness in domain names. I know Companies House and Nominet are now talking, but they need to align their rules on business names and domain names so you cannot be clever about what you register at Companies House and then use that in order to misrepresent who you are in the domain names system. Closer co-operation in future in that area would be very useful. I know co-operation has started and I hope it will be given a fair wind. I was also interested by the Minister’s comment that this is not linked to the proposals later in the Bill, where I have tabled some amendments, for reserve powers for Nominet to deal with possible problems which might occur in the future with the domain names system. I am glad to hear that they are not linked as I thought that the report might be a precursor to something coming up. Finally, I hope we are going to be clear about who we are going to be reporting on. Registries can be set up for companies which happen to be in the UK but have nothing to do with UK business. For instance, .tel operates from the UK but is to do with mobile telephony worldwide. It is not a UK business. We have to be very careful that we do not inadvertently do anything inappropriate against companies that do not really have a UK interest. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 27A withdrawn. Amendments 28 to 30A not moved. Clause 2 agreed. Clause 3 : OFCOM reports on media content Clause 3 : OFCOM reports on media content Amendment 31 not moved. Clause 3 agreed. Amendment 32 Moved by