I propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 98 together.
The Competition and Mergers Review Group published on 3 March 1999 its discussion document on the newspaper sector. I asked the group to take account of and advise me on how best to implement certain recommendations of the Commission on the Newspaper Industry dealing with competition issues. The recommendations concern the factors to be considered in regulating changes of ownership of newspapers, that merger law be widened to enable consideration to be given to the acquisition of control over newspapers by means other than the acquisition of shares and finally that the issue of concentration of ownership be considered on a media wide as well as on a single media basis.