11.47am: Richards says that the role of Ofcom is to carry out the "least intrusive, least burdensome" way of achieving its public interest objectives.
The potential for growth is clear as more people find out about it when seeking guidance on which hospital to choose.The website is run as a social enterprise a business with public-interest objectives.
While recognising the scale of the housing crisis, we remain very concerned to ensure that the planning framework does not place undue emphasis on short-term economic growth at the expense of other important long term, public interest objectives of planning, including the protection and enhancement of the environment.
"The national TV ownership cap, which may have served a purpose in the days when only three TV networks competed in local markets, long ago outlived its rationale and is now harming rather than promoting its original public-interest objectives of diversity, localism and competition," he said.
Service providers should only be obliged to obtain business authorisations or licenses where strictly necessary to meet relevant public interest objectives.
As such, we may conclude that both in the primary and in the secondary chains, there is clear and active involvement of private parties to a project with public interest objectives, so that the second condition to PPP is also met.
"Trade and investment should be treated as tools for advancing public interest objectives - not ends in and of themselves".
I am fully convinced that, via the legislative process, we will be able to settle upon an instrument which will tap the single market's hidden potential without jeopardising legitimate public interest objectives.
The 'national interest' objective is shared by almost all donor governments.
