A terminal apparatus comprising: a higher layer processor configured to acquire a dedicated radio resource control, RRC, configuration, the dedicated RRC configuration comprising first information, second information and third information, the first information indicating one or more control resource set(s), the second information indicating one or more resource set(s), the one or more resource set(s) including at least one of the one or more control resource set(s); a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, receiving unit configured to monitor a PDCCH in the one or more control resource set(s), the PDCCH carrying a downlink control information, DCI, format which schedules a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH; and a PDSCH receiving unit configured to receive the PDSCH; wherein the DCI format comprises a first information field indicating a start symbol of the PDSCH and does not comprise a second information field indicating whether or not a subset of the one or more resource set(s) is available for the PDSCH if a) the DCI format is a first DCI format mapped in UE-specific search space and b) the third information indicates that the first DCI format does not comprise the second information field, wherein the first DCI format is intended for the terminal apparatus, the DCI format comprises the first information field and does not comprise the second information field if the DCI format is a second DCI format mapped in common search space, wherein the second DCI format is intended for the terminal apparatus, and the DCI format comprises the first information field and the second information field if c) the third information indicates that the DCI format comprises the second information field and d) the DCI format is the first DCI format mapped in UE-specific search space. a higher layer processor configured to acquire a dedicated radio resource control, RRC, configuration, the dedicated RRC configuration comprising first information, second information and third information, the first information indicating one or more control resource set(s), the second information indicating one or more resource set(s), the one or more resource set(s) including at least one of the one or more control resource set(s); a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, receiving unit configured to monitor a PDCCH in the one or more control resource set(s), the PDCCH carrying a downlink control information, DCI, format which schedules a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH; and a PDSCH receiving unit configured to receive the PDSCH; wherein the DCI format comprises a first information field indicating a start symbol of the PDSCH and does not comprise a second information field indicating whether or not a subset of the one or more resource set(s) is available for the PDSCH if a) the DCI format is a first DCI format mapped in UE-specific search space and b) the third information indicates that the first DCI format does not comprise the second information field, wherein the first DCI format is intended for the terminal apparatus, the DCI format comprises the first information field and does not comprise the second information field if the DCI format is a second DCI format mapped in common search space, wherein the second DCI format is intended for the terminal apparatus, and the DCI format comprises the first information field and the second information field if c) the third information indicates that the DCI format comprises the second information field and d) the DCI format is the first DCI format mapped in UE-specific search space.