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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I shall not go into the detail now. By sensible and reasonable measures, we mean software procedures and so on. I would not wish to say from this position exactly how we would define "sensible" and "reasonable" but, having looked at the problems, we do not believe that the cost impact should be too high. We will take that away, but I doubt very much that it would be necessary to recruit extra staff to deal with the situation. Whatever the situation is, we are saying, "If there are two decisions, can we absolve these institutions from any responsibility whatever?". I hope that no one would say yes to that. If the answer is that the institutions must have a responsibility, we need to be clear about what we would regard as sensible and reasonable measures and make sure that we are providing those institutions with the appropriate technical advice to achieve those measures.