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731375

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of community broadband schemes in England about the roll-out of superfast broadband services.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>DCMS has worked with a number of local communities to progress community broadband schemes and, as a result, information and guidance for communities has been developed and published on the Department’s website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-led-broadband-schemes. This also includes case studies such as Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) (https://b4rn.org.uk/) and other examples.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 30/06/2017 11:49:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

731429

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Mobile Broadband: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of mobile telephone operators on 3G and 4G coverage in rural areas in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>My department has regular meetings with mobile network operators at both ministerial and official level to discuss a range of issues, including improving mobile coverage in rural areas across the UK including Scotland. Furthermore, as a result of the Government's landmark agreement with mobile operators each mobile operator will deliver mobile coverage to 90% of the UK's landmass by the end of this year. Additionally O2 will deliver indoor 4G coverage to 95% of premises in Scotland, also by the end of 2017.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 30/06/2017 11:47:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

750080

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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
	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 discussions her Department has had with BT and Openreach on the location of unlit fibre and ducting laid across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	3751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Ministers regularly discuss a wide range of issues with BT and Openreach.</p><p> </p><p>Openreach has introduced an online mapping tool, which provides other telecoms providers with the locations of its poles and underground ducts, although the tool was introduced in the context of PIA (its duct and pole access remedy).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/07/2017 15:19:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

750081

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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: Scotland
	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 discussions her Department has had with BT and Openreach on pilot projects to utilise fibre laid above ground via existing utility poles, especially in rural areas of Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	3752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Ministers regularly discuss a wide range of issues with BT and Openreach.</p><p>The use of utility infrastructure to deploy telecommunications fibre has been made easier by the Communications (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2016, which transposed the EU Broadband Cost Reduction Directive to UK law. This ensures that digital communications providers can access other providers’ physical infrastructure, across a range of sectors, on fair and reasonable terms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/07/2017 15:20:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

757573

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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	Digital Technology: Skilled Workers
	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 initiatives are being sponsored by her Department to support and grow the UK digital skills base.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	8905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>DCMS has sponsored many programs that have helped support and grow the UK digital skills base. Some of them include the following:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Through grant funding, we have supported Ada, the National College for Digital Skills to build and pilot an innovative, online platform that will teach coding skills using elements of peer-to-peer and gamified learning. The first school-age students started using the platform in June 2017 in a pilot that was rolled out to 30 schools across the UK. Over 1,000 students – more than double the initial target of 500 – benefited from this learning<p><p> <br></li><li>DCMS is leading on a new digital skills partnership programme which will convene stakeholders across the public, private and charity sector to tackle the digital skills gap in a co-ordinated and coherent way. The DSP will also deliver on the 4 million training places announced in the Digital Strategy<p><p> <br></li><li>DCMS is also leading on a number of short and long-term government interventions to address the cyber security skills gap, funded through the National Cyber Security Programme including a programme targeted at 14-18 year olds and a range of activity in further and higher education.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/09/2017 14:59:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

757585

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	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
	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 the average length of time is for a (a) commercial property and (b) domestic residence to be connected to a broadband service in each region and nation of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	8907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold these figures. For one provider quarterly data on the average length of time for commercial and residential properties to be connected to Openreach’s network is publicly available from their website at https://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/OurResponsibilities/our-performance.aspx.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/09/2017 13:39:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

760065

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Devolution
	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 the dates were of the most recent meetings between Ministers from her Department and their counterparts in the devolved administrations; and what the dates are of the next planned meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	10397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>The table below lists the most recent meetings between Ministers from DCMS and their counterparts in the devolved administrations and the next planned meetings:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Minister</p></td><td><p>Devolved Administration</p></td><td><p>Date of most recent meeting</p></td><td><p>Next planned meeting</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sport</p></td><td><p>Welsh Government</p></td><td><p>26 September 2016</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Minister for Digital</p></td><td><p>Scottish Government</p></td><td><p>6<sup>th</sup> November</p></td><td><p>28<sup>th</sup> November 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Minister for Sport &amp; Civil Society</p></td><td><p>Welsh Government</p></td><td><p>20<sup>th</sup> November 2016</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism</p></td><td><p>Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland Governments</p></td><td><p>26<sup>th</sup> October</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 22/11/2017 15:17:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr