Lord Carter, the author of the report Digital Britain who resigned from the Government this summer, also made a return to the House to defend the report that led to the Digital Economy Bill.
He defended the 50p-per-month broadband tax, which the Tories have already said they’ll scrap if they win next year..
Carter compared the so-called Broadband tax to the television licence. “As a country we are still broadly willing, with some notable objectors, to spend £142.50 per household per annum, with appropriate exemptions for certain households, in a hypothecated tax called the licence fee to provide us with high quality public service British content,” he said.
“It seems a credible proposition that we should be more than willing to invest £6 per household per annum, with appropriate exemptions for certain households, to facilitate and accelerate our infrastructure upgrade.”
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