Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods

A base station for transmitting downlink control-related information to a terminal in a wireless telecommunications system, the base station being configured to:

• allocate downlink resources in a first set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information;
• determine that a further downlink transmission will be transmitted using at least part of the allocated downlink resources thereby identifying a collision between the downlink control-related information transmission and the further downlink transmission;
• allocate, upon identifying a collision, a second set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information;
• transmit the downlink control-related information using at least the second set of resources.

A terminal for receiving downlink control-related information in a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal being configured to:

• identify downlink resources in a first set of resources for receiving the downlink control-related information;
• identify a collision between the downlink control-related information transmission and a further downlink transmission in the first set of resources;
• identify, upon identification of the collision, a second set of resources for receiving the downlink control-related information;
• receive the downlink control-related information using at least the second set of resources.