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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My apologies—I thought that I had made it abundantly clear. We are appealing for flexibility, including the ability to provide people with the right of appeal. After all, a letter may have been sent to them in error. We are not arguing about that in the first letter. My comments on technical measures related to the first letter. We believe that these things are appropriate to the code. We believe that we have got it right in the Bill, but I was trying to give an explicit assurance about the right of appeal. I will finish my comments on Amendment 66. The technical measures may be something that the code decides would be appropriate for a subsequent letter, but not for the initial notification, where it is expected that the tone will be more courteous and the emphasis more on preventing such a thing happening again. It is right to provide a degree of flexibility here, as the current text allows. I reiterate the assurance about the importance of the right of appeal—let there be no doubt about that. I see why noble Lords have suggested including this information in the Bill, but we do not think that this is necessary and believe that it is more appropriate in the code. In the light of the assurances that I have given, I invite the noble Lord to withdraw his amendment.