Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effect on UK firms engaged in the digital economy of proposed changes to the EU Electronic Communications Framework.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has carefully considered the impact assessments that accompanied the European Commission’s proposals for recast of, and revisions to, the EU Electronic Communications Code and we have challenged these where we felt more information was needed.

The Government ran an industry “call for views” in October and November 2016, following publication of the proposals in September 2016, which included seeking “views and any supporting evidence on the costs and benefits of these proposals”.