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48926

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of the introduction of unbundled fibre to the cabinet and sub-loop bundling of residential broadband provision.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
uin	197016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>I favour competition at all levels of the telecoms system, where it is effective and sustainable. Sub-loop unbundling (SLU), where a competing provider takes their fibre to BT's street cabinets and connects to BT's copper lines to consumers' premises, is a standard product controlled by Ofcom. At present there appears to be limited demand from communications providers for SLU. There may be opportunities to increase the likelihood of future competition in fibre-to-the-cabinet by designing network upgrades to make such access easier at little or no additional cost at the time of deployment, but lower entry barriers subsequently. Ofcom is keeping the matter under review.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

48927

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will initiate a review of the fibre broadband wholesale pricing structure.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
uin	197017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>On 27 January this year, Ofcom published a consultation on an update on the impact of fibre roll-out and the proposed charge control review of the wholesale broadband access (WBA) markets, following-on from its July-September 2013 consultation on the WBA market. In this context, services provided via copper, cable and fibre access networks are considered to be within the same market. The update consultation closed on 10 March.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

48940

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints the Advertising Standards Authority has received about letting agencies failing to advertise their fees since November 2013.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	197128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p>The Advertising Standards Agency has received 76 complaints since 1 November 2013 about letting agents. This figure includes but is not limited to complaints about fees.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

48970

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what expenditure his Department incurred on the (a) Broadband Delivery Programme, (b) Mobile Infrastructure Project, (c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme and (d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative) in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15 to date; and what further expenditure on each of those projects it expects to incur in (A) the remainder of 2014-15, (B) 2015-16, (C) 2016-17, (D) 2017-18, (E) 2018-19 and (F) 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	197157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The expenditure the Department incurred on the (a) Broadband Delivery Programme, (b) Mobile Infrastructure Project, (c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme and (d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative) in the years requested is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme</p></td><td><p>2010-11 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2011-12 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2012-13 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p><p>(£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Broadband Delivery Programme</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9.77</p></td><td><p>68.49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Mobile Infrastructure Project</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0.09</p></td><td><p>1.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>49.7</p></td><td><p>46.1</p></td><td><p>9.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>16.36</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures provided relate to capital funding only. The totals for (a) and (d) include budget transfers to Broadband projects in the Devolved Administrations and (a) includes a budget transfer to Defra. The 2013-14 data are unaudited figures from the Department's financial systems and therefore subject to change. BDUK has not yet spent any capital funding in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The forecasts for these DCMS programmes are subject to regular re-profiling. These are published on an annual basis by the Cabinet Office (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-major-projects-portfolio-data-for-dcms-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-major-projects-portfolio-data-for-dcms-2013</a>). The next data set will be published in June 2014. These programmes are currently profiled to spend:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) £780m on the Broadband Delivery programme by end FY 2017/18;</p><p> </p><p>(b) £150m on the Superfast Connected Cities Programme in 2015;</p><p> </p><p>(c) £131m on the Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme by end FY 14/15;</p><p> </p><p>(d) £150m on the Mobile Infrastructure Programme by end FY 2014/15.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 8780 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman