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658439

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date	14/12/2016
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
hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
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 rural communities have launched their own initiatives to install fibre networks as a result of commercial and government programmes being unable to reach their premises.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	57650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Broadband Delivery UK has recently published information and guidance for communities on implementing their own community projects, with examples of schemes that it is aware of (available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-led-broadband-schemes). There are also other examples of community broadband support such as Community Broadband Scotland, which gives specific support to community projects in Scotland. The government does not, however, hold information on all community schemes in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 20/12/2016 12:24:40 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

578463

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
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
hansard heading	Tourism: World Heritage Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support tourism through increasing the number of UNESCO-recognised World Heritage sites in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	906191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>World Heritage Sites are internationally recognised. As a result, they attract visitors from near and far.</p><p> </p><p>In July, the Gorham Cave Complex in Gibraltar became the UK’s 30th World Heritage Site. I very much hope to see the Lake District become our 31st in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister’s Tourism Action Plan sets out how we are working to make it easier for visitors to travel around our country and discover these sites for themselves.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 08/09/2016 12:01:11 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

539760

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Bury St Edmunds
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 young people in Bury St Edmunds constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	43255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>I am pleased to report that over 1,000 young people in Suffolk have participated in NCS in the past two years. The NCS Trust does not collect data at a constituency level. Therefore, the figures below are for the local authority area of Suffolk.</p><p> </p><p>2014 – 328 participants</p><p>2015 – 710 participants</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 21/07/2016 15:07:29 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

539767

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the level of take-up was for superfast fixed broadband in each parliamentary constituency in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	43244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold take-up data at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>Take-up in the areas covered by the BDUK projects is available at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hs00bNsyRV1WoOt-fow3rsNXzpcKg26AsOWvk1bvJRk/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hs00bNsyRV1WoOt-fow3rsNXzpcKg26AsOWvk1bvJRk/edit#gid=0</a></p><p> </p><p>Ofcom’s, “Connected Nations 2015” publication indicates that “one in three homes had ‘superfast’ broadband with a connection of 30 Mbit/s or more&quot; in May 2015.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 22/07/2016 13:24:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

418664

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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
hansard heading	Broadband: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase broadband coverage and speed in Suffolk and the East of England.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	10186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed £26.68 million to the Suffolk broadband project. The current contracted coverage is to provide superfast broadband access to 117,493 homes and businesses in the county, extending coverage to nearly 91% of premises. Procurement is still under way for part of the funding and coverage will be extended further once contracts are agreed. As 30 June 2015, the Suffolk project had covered 84,447 superfast premises.</p><p><br>Over £81 million of government funding has been committed to improving superfast broadband coverage in the East of England (including Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes). This will support delivery of superfast broadband to 642,160 homes and businesses in the region that would otherwise not have gained coverage.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/09/2015 14:40:07 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill