Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill

To some extent, I support what the Minister was saying; if a scheme is rolled out over four or five years, there will inevitably be a degree of change; technology will change. Being too specific at this stage could be a mistake. However, I want to raise one specific point. We are talking about regions. The Minister himself said that a scheme would run for eight months in a region and a month after switch-off. The helpful note that he sent refers, at paragraph 5.21, to final transmission switch-off in a region or transmitter area. However, transmitter areas overlap. It was the case—I suspect that it is still true—that some people on the English side of the Bristol channel got Welsh television and one or two people on the Welsh side got HTV West. The regions are not as neatly defined as they seem on a map of ITV areas. There is overlap, and some of the transmitters may well overlap. In one or two areas, people have the choice of which transmitter they tune into.