Lord Lucasasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they consider that BSkyB's participation as a long-term supplier of pay-television services to British Digital Broadcasting, in particular of sports programming, raises substantial competition concerns in the pay television network and conditional access markets.
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyAny such competition concerns would be considered by the Office of Fair Trading and by the regulators statutorily responsible for particular aspects of these markets: the Independent Television Commission; and OFTEL.