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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, is 100 per cent right. If you do not have a benchmark or starting point, you do not know where you are going. The Swedish situation is interesting. When I mentioned it to someone the other day, they said that, yes, internet use had dropped, but no one knows why it was by 50 per cent immediately, in a day. It is highly unlikely to have been just because of that. There must have been some other reasons. Apart from that, they said that traffic is back up again and that it had dropped by 18 per cent soon after. The traffic is back up again, but much of it is encrypted now, so no one knows what is going across it. If that happens here it will completely mess up the Home Office. The Government will make themselves very unpopular with the Home Office.