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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, the Minister said in response to the previous amendment that all protections were built into the Bill. Actually, there are very few of them. We have heard lots of assurances from the Minister that the protections will be built into the code, but they are not in the Bill, which means that they do not have to go into the code and we must rely on ministerial assurances. Unfortunately, Governments change, Ministers come and go and the world changes. We cannot be certain about what will happen five years down the road. We should build more of these protections into the Bill and not rely on what Ofcom or other people might put in a code later on.