Jul 26th 2005
By: Roger Darlington
By: Roger Darlington
The deregulatory regulator
Last week, Ofcom published its Annual Report for 2004/5. While much of the media coverage focused on the high salaries and bonuses of the top executives, a quiet reading of the weighty document reveals an impressive record of achievement. The whole tone of Ofcom is different from its predecessor organisations, It is much more open and consultative and much more evidence-based.
Another distinguishing feature of Ofcom - as underlined by comments in the latest Annual Report - is that it sees itself as “a deregulatory regulator”. To what extent is this true, why should this be the case, and what are the problems with this approach? See discussion here.
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