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1167384

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Broadband
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she has taken since her Department's consultation on the standard of connectivity in new build developments to improve connectivity for new builds.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	7756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Ensuring new homes are built with the future in mind, ready to accept the next generation of digital infrastructure, remains vitally important. My Department consulted last year on proposals to ensure that all new build homes have gigabit-capable connectivity.</p><p> </p><p>In the Queen’s Speech the government committed to legislate to mandate the installation of gigabit capable connections in new build developments. This legislation would amend the Building Act 1984 so that Building Regulations require all new build developments to have the infrastructure to support gigabit-capable connections. It will also require developers to work with broadband companies, and to contribute financially, to install gigabit-capable connections in virtually all new build developments, up to a cost cap.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 7754 question first answered 05/11/2019 13:50:52 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1167383

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Broadband
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including prospective premises in the Open Market Review that takes place prior to the procurement exercise for a new fibre roll-out.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	7755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>When an Open Market Review (OMR) data set is pulled together all serviceable premises which are eligible for funding are included. This uses a unique premises reference number, which is how the individual sites in a procurement are defined. This is allocated at planning permission stage so they could theoretically be included, however there would only be a benefit in doing so if the build timescales aligned to the proposed intervention of that particular project</p><p> </p><p>In the recent Queen’s Speech, there was reference to our intention to bring forward secondary legislation in relation to new build. If successful this would compel developers to work with network providers to make gigabit capable infrastructure available from day one. This would make the inclusion of these premises in an OMR process academic.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/11/2019 13:52:22 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore