Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill

I am afraid that the Minister did not. As far as I am aware, having reread the Committee proceedings, he said that he rejected my proposed change because he did not think that six years was long enough. Given the history of the Government on major procurement projects, I fully accepted that point. Also, I think that he felt that the change was redundant, because the Bill would not be used beyond digital switchover. However, that strikes me as an argument that goes either way. Either one is casual and says, ““Nobody is going to use this Bill, so we will leave on the statue book the power for the BBC to request information from the Department for Work and Pensions for digital switchover””, or one says, ““The Bill is redundant. It is no longer necessary. It will cease to be. It will become a dead Act.”” The latter strikes me as a better way of legislating than simply leaving a redundant stump on the statute book.