Culture, Media and Sport - Third Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 17 January 2007.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 The Call TV quiz sector

How the programmes work

The growth of the sector

Regulation of the sector

3 Legislative framework

Legislation

Are Call TV quiz shows lotteries?

4 The effect upon players

Financial impact

Controlling spending

The possibility of addiction

5 Fairness

Fairness of competitions

Unfair practices in handling calls

Charging for calls when the chances of success are zero

6 Transparency

Information about the cost of calls

Information about the chances of getting through

Information about reasons for banning participants

7 Overall conclusions

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted written evidence

Reports from the Committee since 2005

ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE

Oral Evidence - 28 November 2006
Written Evidence

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Prepared 25 January 2007