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723110

registered interest
date	21/04/2017
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, what steps the Government is taking to provide superfast broadband in (a) rural communities and (b) Gordon constituency.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>As a result of the government's Superfast Broadband Programme and roll-out by the private sector, superfast broadband with speeds of more than 24Mbps is now available to more than 92% of homes and businesses in the UK and the government expects this to reach 95% by the end of 2017. This coverage includes rural areas. The delivery programme in Scotland including the Gordon constituency is delivered by the Scottish Government.</p><p>Thinkbroadband estimate that current coverage of superfast broadband in the Gordon constituency is 79%, which DCMS estimate will rise to 83% by the end of 2017. This compares to a UK average of over 92%. The Scottish Government is responsible for delivering broadband in Scotland.</p><p>Take up in the Rest of Scotland Project area is 28% and as a result of the UK Government's contract management, further funding can be returned to the Scottish Government for reinvestment in more superfast coverage as take-up rises. It would be for the Scottish Government to decide where funding returned by suppliers under the contracts is allocated to increase coverage.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/04/2017 14:15:12 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond

683314

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
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, with reference to her Department's press release of 22 December 2016, whether the £440 million made available for superfast rural broadband only includes costs for traditional and fibre-optic cables; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	62906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>The Superfast Rollout programme is technology neutral. This could include Fibre-to-the-cabinet or fibre-to-the-premises solutions along with GFAST, Remote nodes and Fixed wireless or a mix of these</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 10/02/2017 14:51:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

683316

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
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, with reference to her Department's press release of 22 December 2016, whether the £440 million made available for superfast rural broadband will include funding to cover difficult installations or provide access to isolated neighbourhoods.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	62907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>The money returned to projects by efficiency savings and gain-share will be invested using the same criteria set out for the earlier phases of superfast rollout. This means it will focus on areas where there is not commercial competition, and prioritised by value-for-money installations to connect the largest number of premises who do not receive superfast speeds. Urban areas have generally been excluded from Superfast Programmes as commercial competition already exists in these locations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 10/02/2017 14:50:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

659488

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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, what assessment she has made of the level of investment required to bring broadband access in rural communities in (a) the UK and (b) Northern Ireland up to the average level in all communities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	57788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>95% of UK premises are expected to be covered by superfast broadband by December 2017. The 95% figure is a UK average and individual areas, including rural parts of Northern Ireland and other areas of the UK, will have different coverage levels. All premises which do not have a speed of at least 10Mbps will be able to request an upgrade to at least this speed under the Universal Service Obligation. Furthermore providers and local bodies will also be able to access funding for full fibre connectivity as announced at the Autumn Statement 2016, once those proposals have been finalised in early 2017.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 20/12/2016 12:05:45 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

658439

registered interest
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

626529

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
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, what assessment her Department has made of the benefits of the forthcoming release of 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz for the availability of high-speed mobile broadband in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	51515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>As noted in the initial conclusions of Ofcom's digital communications review published in February 2016, this spectrum &quot;is best suited to providing additional capacity than increasing coverage&quot; (para 3.49, p.30). Improving mobile coverage remains a key priority for Government and as a result of a licence obligation on O2 98% of UK premises should have indoor 4G coverage by end-2017.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 04/11/2016 13:12:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

619848

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of rural broadband cover in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	49956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is making a significant contribution to broadband provision across the UK, and the superfast broadband projects that are under way in the devolved nations will deliver superfast coverage to nearly 700,000 premises in Scotland, 650,000 in Wales and 40,000 in Northern Ireland. These form an important part of achieving 95% superfast coverage across the UK by December 2017. The project in Northern Ireland adds to the previous roll-out.</p><p> </p><p>These projects will also benefit from clawback funding from suppliers as a result of take-up going above the initial expected levels, which will be available for reinvestment in additional superfast broadband coverage. New procurements are under way in each of the nations using this funding which will further increase superfast coverage.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the government is introducing a Universal Service Obligation in the Digital Economy Bill, which will give the right to consumers to request a broadband service; our aim is currently to set this at 10Mbps.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/10/2016 11:59:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

595450

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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, what estimate she has made of the amount of its own capital that BT has invested in the rural broadband rollout programme to date.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	47312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>BDUK does not hold data on BT's total capital investment to date in the Superfast Broadband Programme. As each project completes, BT is required to confirm that either its contracted capital commitment is fully drawn down, or that any unused capital contribution is committed to an investment fund which is managed by the Local Body to support further delivery. BT's total capital commitment for Phase 1 of the programme is £348 million.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 12/10/2016 09:18:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

576752

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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	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, what support her Department provides to rural communities to install their own fibre networks when commercial and other Government programmes have been unable to reach their premises.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	45196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>Through the Government’s investment of over £780 million, superfast broadband is now available to over 90% of homes and businesses in the UK, compared to 45% in 2010. By the end of 2017 it will be available to 95% of homes and businesses. The Government welcomes initiatives taken by local communities and others to support community fibre broadband projects.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/09/2016 12:12:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

540976

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
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: 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, what support her Department is providing to support the development and innovation of (a) pure fibre and (b) FTTP broadband delivery technology in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	43549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>Through the Government’s investment of over £780 million, superfast broadband is now available to 90% of homes and businesses in the UK, compared to 45% in 2010. By the end of 2017 it will be available to 95% of homes and businesses. An increasing proportion of the additional coverage to be delivered in rural areas will be provided through fibre to the premises (FTTP).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/09/2016 16:01:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall