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819921

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date	10/01/2018
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	Mobile Phones
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 the agreement with mobile phone providers to provide a mobile phone signal to 90 per cent of the UK’s landmass by the end of 2017 will be enforced.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	121993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it is assessing whether mobile network operators have met their licence obligations that were agreed in 2014. Ofcom plans to publish its assessment in early 2018. In 2017 the Government granted Ofcom new powers to issue fines to mobile operators in the event that they do not meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121991 121994 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:50:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

819922

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	5G
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 he has made of the potential merits of strengthening future license conditions for the 5G spectrum auction in order to improve telephone and data signal in remote parts of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	121994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it is assessing whether mobile network operators have met their licence obligations that were agreed in 2014. Ofcom plans to publish its assessment in early 2018. In 2017 the Government granted Ofcom new powers to issue fines to mobile operators in the event that they do not meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121991 121993 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:50:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

819928

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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: Rural Areas
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 proportion of rural premises in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) England have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	122000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Ofcom's 2017 Connected Nations report includes the following percentages in figure 5, measuring superfast availability at 30Mbit/s in May 2017, showing percentage point changes from a year earlier (pp).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Urban coverage, % premises</p></td><td><p>Rural coverage, % premises</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>95% (↑2pp)</p></td><td><p>66% (↑7pp)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>95% (↑1pp)</p></td><td><p>69% (↑6pp)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>97% (↑1pp)</p></td><td><p>57% (↑5pp)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>94% (↑4pp)</p></td><td><p>56% (↑10pp)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>96% (↑3pp)</p></td><td><p>66% (↑10pp)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Ofcom analysis of operator data</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/01/2018 14:04:06 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont