That is a perfectly legitimate point, and it could even end up saving the Government money. For example, if more people were made aware of switchover across all regions, some of them might get on with the job of switching to digital, and then when switchover arrived, they would have already switched over.
Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 29 January 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill.
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