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11.23am BST

Q: What will be the impact of the EU plan to limit the amount of UK TV content shown in Europe?

Frost says, as far as he understands it, the EU has just sent round a questionnaire asking for views on this.

Lord Frost: ‘We’re in favour of free circulation of audiovisual goods as of other goods. If the EU choose to harm themselves and their viewers by excluding some categories of UK content we can’t stop them, but I’m sure good sense will prevail and we won’t be in that position.’

11.19am BST

Chris Bryant (Lab) tells Frost that his description of his job makes it sound like the Europe minister job that Bryant himself once used to do in the Foreign Office.

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