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1543356

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Project Gigabit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his announcement in the Autumn Statement 2022 on 17 November 2022, that gigabit broadband rollout will be funded, whether the £5 billion committed to project gigabit will (a) be maintained in cash terms, or (b) rise with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	89820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Autumn Statement maintains the level of economic infrastructure spending as set out at the Spending Review 2021. That Spending Review confirmed investment of £1.2bn for Project Gigabit from 2021-22 to 2024-25 as part of the wider £5 billion commitment to the programme. The government remains committed to its targets to reach at least 85% gigabit-capable broadband coverage by 2025 and to reach nationwide coverage by 2030. Significant progress has been made towards these targets since 2019, with gigabit-capable access rising from 6% of premises in 2019 to 72% as of today. The government will confirm spending allocations beyond 2024-25 at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 89821 question first answered 22/11/2022 15:12:33 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1543360

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Project Gigabit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his announcement in the Autumn Statement 2022 on 17 November 2022 that gigabit broadband roll-out will be funded, if the investment of £1.2 billion of the £5 billion Project Gigabit will be allocated to the period from 2021-22 to 2024-25, and when the allocation of the further £3.8 billion will be announced.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	89821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Autumn Statement maintains the level of economic infrastructure spending as set out at the Spending Review 2021. That Spending Review confirmed investment of £1.2bn for Project Gigabit from 2021-22 to 2024-25 as part of the wider £5 billion commitment to the programme. The government remains committed to its targets to reach at least 85% gigabit-capable broadband coverage by 2025 and to reach nationwide coverage by 2030. Significant progress has been made towards these targets since 2019, with gigabit-capable access rising from 6% of premises in 2019 to 72% as of today. The government will confirm spending allocations beyond 2024-25 at the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 89820 question first answered 22/11/2022 15:12:33 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1522445

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
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	Project Gigabit
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 many properties have been connected to gigabit broadband as a direct result of Project Gigabit funding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>We are making excellent progress with Project Gigabit. By the end of March 2022, we had delivered gigabit-capable broadband to 741,000 premises, ahead of our target of 720,000 premises. Combined with commercial gigabit delivery, we remain on track to hit our target of 85 per cent gigabit coverage by 2025.</p><p>We recently signed our first Project Gigabit contracts in North Dorset and Teesdale, and in total we have launched procurements to connect up to 520,000 premises to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/10/2022 09:47:54 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1522446

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
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	Project Gigabit
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 and what proportion of the funding for Project Gigabit has been allocated in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Project Gigabit funding for the planned procurements across each nation will be determined following thorough market reviews and using a modelled estimate of the costs involved in providing gigabit coverage.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/10/2022 09:53:16 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1522449

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
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	Project Gigabit
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 many public sector hubs have been set up as part of Project Gigabit; if she will publish a list of those hubs; and what estimate she has made of the number of addressable premises that have been connected as a result of each of those hubs.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	63207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Since 2019, we have connected 6,600 public sector buildings and assets through our Local Full Fibre Network, Rural Gigabit Connectivity, and GigaHubs programmes. Our delivery figures are updated in Building Digital UK's quarterly Project Gigabit progress updates and will be confirmed in its 2023 Performance Report. We are considering how and where to publish further hub details.</p><p>As part of Project Gigabit, the government has made up to £110 million available to connect up to 7,000 rural public buildings such as schools, GP surgeries and libraries. Each hub is expected to result in at least one premises passed by a gigabit-capable connection - this is a conservative assumption as hubs are intended to stimulate local build from suppliers.</p><p>In June 2022, we announced a joint £82 million investment with the Department for Education (DfE) to connect up to 3,000 primary schools with gigabit broadband over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/10/2022 10:05:31 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1455056

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Project Gigabit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made allocating £5bn announced for Project Gigabit.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	148209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The 2021 Spending Review re-affirmed £1.2bn over four years as part of our landmark £5bn commitment to Project Gigabit. We are open to accelerating faster and further if the market can deliver more, building upon the 67% of gigabit-capable broadband coverage achieved to date, up from just 8% in July 2019. Project Gigabit will support the rollout of gigabit connectivity in the hardest to reach areas where we are working with industry to target a minimum of 85% coverage by 2025. We are making good progress; so far broadband providers have been invited to bid for contracts to upgrade up to 187,000 premises across Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire, North Dorset and West Cornwall.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 31/03/2022 11:15:20 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell