Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport Minutes of Proceedings Report

TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2002

Mr Gerald Kaufman, in the Chair

Mr Chris Bryant	Alan Keen
Mr Frank Doran	Miss Julie Kirkbride
Michael Fabricant	Ms Debra Shipley
Mr Adrian Flook	John Thurso

The Committee deliberated.

Communications:

Sir Christopher Bland, Chairman, Mr Chris Earnshaw, Group Engineering Director and Chief Technology Officer, Mr Ian Morfett, Director of Regulatory Affairs, BT, were examined.

Mr Graham Wallace, Chief Executive, Mr Tom Phillips, Group Director, Public Policy, Ms Emma Gilthorpe, Vice­President, Public Policy, Cable and Wireless plc, were examined.

Ms Karen Thomson, Chief Executive, Ms Clare Gilbert, Strategic Policy Advisor, Mr Simon Hampton, Director for European Public Affairs, AOL UK, were examined.

  [Adjourned till Tuesday 12 February at half­past Ten o'clock.

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Prepared 13 February 2003