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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, this is a simple amendment to ensure proper parliamentary scrutiny of the reports. The Government have sensibly accepted many of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee’s recommendations and have improved the level of parliamentary control over the imposition of many of the orders in this part. It would therefore be sensible to ensure that Parliament has formal access to the reports necessary to inform its scrutiny. We have stopped short of suggesting that the interim reports should necessarily be laid before Parliament, as this might be too burdensome. We would, however, expect these to be published in other ways. It would be helpful therefore if the Minister could confirm the extent to which the Government intend that both the interim and full reports will be published. I beg to move.