Consultation outcome

Digital Britain report: proposed new duties for Ofcom on resilience

From:
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Published
15 September 2009
This was published under the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Digital Britain report: government response to consultation to the consultation on the proposed new duties for Ofcom on resilience - secondary information

Ref: BIS/09/1522

PDF, 72.2 KB, 6 pages

Detail of outcome

Feedback received

Digital Britain report: proposed new duties for Ofcom on resilience - responses

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Detail of feedback received

The majority of the respondents were broadly supportive of one or both of the proposed changes and acknowledged the value of electronic communication operators providing information on their risk assessments and emergency planning.

We will use these responses to inform how we implement Directive 2009/140/EC on the Common Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services.

Original consultation

Summary

Sought to identify the best way to implement a new duty for Ofcom to report on the UK communications infrastructure every 2 years

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

Sought views on the government proposals to grant additional powers for Ofcom to help them assess resilience in the UK communications infrastructure. These proposals would help Ofcom to report on the UK communications infrastructure to government every 2 years, building on commitments set out in the ‘Digital Britain White Paper’.

The consultation proposed that Ofcom should be provided with additional powers to direct companies to:

  • report to Ofcom on risk assessments and emergency planning
  • test emergency plans and participate where necessary in government testing of national response plans for telecoms

Documents

Digital Britain report: proposed new duties for Ofcom on resilience - secondary information

Ref: BIS/09/1249

PDF, 242 KB, 22 pages

Published 15 September 2009