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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am puzzled—to put it politely—about the noble Lord’s reference to large costs. Under subsection (4)(b) of the new section, Ofcom is, presumably, already writing to the major copyright interests—there are not that many of them—to discover what they are doing so that it can fulfil its duty under the clause. If it adds a little line at the bottom, "How much have you sold online this year?", that would answer my noble friend’s question. The data will just come as a result of an answer to one or two simple questions appended to communications that are already going out under this Bill. That would not even cost an extra stamp. It would be a matter of a few pounds. Given all the ingenuity of the Civil Service, how does the noble Lord manage to translate that into vast costs? What does he imagine Ofcom will spend money doing beyond what I have described?