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date	18/04/2019
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, how much has been clawed back from providers in the Broadband UK programme as a result of a higher than anticipated take-up of broadband.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	245557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Superfast contracts include a take-up clawback mechanism to ensure public subsidies within the Superfast infrastructure are kept to a minimum. Clawback is generated over a 7 year period following completion of build implementation, based on customer take-up of service. Current estimates project take-up clawback to be at least £712m over this 7 year period. Some of this clawback has been returned early by agreement with the suppliers, and this is being reinvested.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/04/2019 13:44:19 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

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date	06/02/2019
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: Optical Fibres
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 his Department has made of the risk to (a) alternative full-fibre network providers and (b) the Government’s target of national full-fibre connectivity by 2033 from anti-competitive overbuild of existing networks.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	217430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review considered different policy and regulatory approaches that would help create the right conditions to accelerate fibre investment and extend coverage across the whole of the UK. The review concluded that the most effective way to deliver this was to promote competition between fibre networks where possible, supported by changes in the regulatory framework and only intervene in a small proportion of the country that can not support commercial investment.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/02/2019 16:19:35 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms