Member

I will come to this particular point later, but I also think there is a danger that we are seeing Ofcom confusing again the issue of the size and reach of individual companies and the risks that an individual company might provide, even if it is small. We are certainly aware—it has been in the papers and discussed more recently in other debates in the House—that websites with a very small number of users in the United Kingdom can provide a tremendous amount of damage. That is not, we think, the intention of the Act when it was passed by this House and by Parliament. The intention was that the Ofcom approach towards looking at risk across the system was a combination of size and the riskiness of the individual product being provided. Again, this was not what we expected to be the outcome of the discussions between the department and Ofcom. Could the Minister reflect on that when she comes to respond on this point? To return to my third point, it seems that the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee make a very strong point about the need for a predesignated list of eligible complainants. I would be grateful if the Minister could respond in more detail.