Recommendation 13

We recommend that the Bill include an explicit power to amend the definition of an internet radio service. This would enable the current definition, which specifies that only stations providing online live simulcasts of their broadcast radio service and which make “reasonable efforts” to use the same advertisements, to be amended in the future to include other types of content. Such a power should require that any amendment by the Secretary of State is preceded by a report from Ofcom and be subject to the affirmative procedure, requiring it to be actively approved by both Houses of Parliament.