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1470670

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	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, whether she has had discussions with the Home Secretary on the effect of rules for recruiting and hiring workers from the EU on the roll out of superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has regular discussions with the Home Secretary about the Points-Based Immigration System to ensure that our Skilled Worker route provides generous catering for the telecommunications sector to attract the workers it needs, provided that skills, salary and English language requirements are met.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 21/06/2022 12:07:15 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1455492

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
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	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, how many (a) applications were received and (b) grants allocated to which organisations as part of the Fibre in the Water competition.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	149271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Two bids were received and evaluated as part of the Fibre in Water competition. The Government has allocated £1.2 million to the winning consortium to proceed with the design stage of the project. The remaining £2 million funds will be granted once this stage has been reviewed.</p><p>It comes from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund which is used to fund pilot projects to test innovative ways of working across the public sector.</p><p>The project is led by Yorkshire Water, with Arcadis and University of Strathclyde. Additional partners will be announced shortly.</p><p>Please see the full press release announcement <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/water-pipes-in-yorkshire-to-deliver-high-speed-broadband-in-new-trial" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/04/2022 10:12:30 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1452131

registered interest
date	18/03/2022
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	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 estimate she has made of the average proportion of homes and business that have high speed broadband availability in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	141922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The vast majority of the United Kingdom (96.7%) has access to superfast broadband. Superfast broadband allows households to work or learn from home and stream a high definition film simultaneously. Additionally, the government is committed to delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity as soon as possible. Today, over 66% of premises can access gigabit-capable networks, up from just one in ten in November 2019. By 2025 the government is targeting a minimum of 85% gigabit-capable coverage.</p><p>According to ThinkBroadband, as of 21/03/2022 coverage statistics were as follows:</p><ol><li><p>England - (Superfast 97.5%) and (Gigabit 67.9%)</p></li><li><p>Scotland - (Superfast 94.9%) and (Gigabit 60.8%)</p></li><li><p>Wales- (Superfast 96%) and (Gigabit 49%)</p></li><li><p>Northern Ireland - (Superfast 91.5%) and (Gigabit 82.3%)</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 22/03/2022 16:24:10 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1451760

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	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 steps her Department is taking to help deliver full-fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	141331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity as soon as possible. Our target is a minimum of 85% gigabit-capable coverage by 2025, but this is not the limit of our ambitions and we will continue to work closely with the industry to get close to complete gigabit coverage as quickly as we can thereafter.</p><p>We are investing £5 billion so hard-to-reach areas can get ultra-reliable gigabit speeds, have already upgraded 600,000 premises, and in three years national coverage has rocketed from six per cent to 66 per cent.</p><p>We are making excellent progress on Project Gigabit. Broadband providers have so far been invited to bid for Project Gigabit contracts worth up to £292 million to upgrade up to 187,000 premises across Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire, North Dorset and West Cornwall - with initial work expected to commence later this year.</p><p>Up to 2.5 million premises are included in the Project Gigabit procurement pipeline within England, with further details published in our latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-gigabit-delivery-plan-winter-update/project-gigabit-winter-update" target="_blank">Project Gigabit Delivery Plan</a>.</p><p>In addition to our procurement pipeline, we are investing up to £210 million in the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme to support rural communities with the cost of installing new gigabit-capable connections. To date, more than 63,500 households and small to medium businesses have benefited from an upgrade through the voucher scheme.</p><p>We are also providing funding of up to £110 million to connect up to 7,000 rural public buildings like schools, GP surgeries and libraries, which will act as hubs for connecting nearby homes and businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 22/03/2022 16:56:50 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1419065

registered interest
date	02/02/2022
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	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, with reference to the Government's press release entitled Government unveils levelling up plan that will transform UK, whether the ambition to have nationwide gigabit-capable broadband and 4G coverage with 5G coverage for the majority of the population by 2030 replaces the Government's previous commitments that the majority of the country would have 5G coverage by 2027.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	116941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>Our ambition remains for the majority of the population to have access to a 5G signal by 2027. Through the government’s work to develop the Wireless Infrastructure Strategy, we will set out a long term vision for the development, deployment and adoption of 5G and future networks. We also remain committed to bringing gigabit-capable broadband to at least 85 per cent of the UK by 2025 and 99% by 2030, alongside extending 4G mobile coverage to 95 per cent of the UK landmass through the Shared Rural Network programme, by 2025.</p><p>The Levelling Up White Paper outlines our mission for 2030.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 07/02/2022 10:42:20 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1402084

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
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	Broadband
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether broadband street cabinets are provided with batteries to be used in case of interruptions in electricity supply; and if not, what is their assessment of the safety implications for areas affected by interruptions in electricity supply given the declining number of homes with landlines.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL5336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>Most fixed-line broadband street cabinets are fitted with a backup battery, ensuring a continued connection throughout an interruption to the mains electricity supply. For the remaining cabinets that do not have a battery backup capability (or, when a backup battery is depleted), telecoms providers have robust plans in place to prioritise these sites during any loss of power.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 25/01/2022 15:27:46 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1387830

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
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, how many and what proportion of properties have access to superfast broadband in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) Bexley Borough, (c) Greater London and (d) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	92826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2021 answer text <p>According to the independent website <a href="http://labs2.thinkbroadband.com/local/E14000596" target="_blank">Thinkbroadband</a>, 98.9% of premises in the constituency of Bexleyheath and Crayford, 98.8% in Bexley Borough, and 97.6% in Greater London have access to superfast broadband (&gt;= 30 Mbps). These are all higher than the UK average of 96.9%.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 21/12/2021 10:10:48 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1357962

registered interest
date	23/09/2021
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 speed copper broadband must accomplish to be legally defined as broadband.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	53843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>‘Broadband’ is defined by the technology type and replaced older ‘narrowband’ technologies such as ‘dial-up’ as a method of connecting to the internet. There is therefore no speed threshold which a connection must reach in order to be considered ‘broadband’.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 18/10/2021 10:57:07 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1351356

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
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 steps he is taking to increase public awareness of the copper broadband switch off and the potential effect of that switch off on internet access.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	40852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>There is currently no set date for the withdrawal of the copper broadband network. Ofcom, the independent telecoms regulator, set out clear criteria in their April 2021 wholesale fixed telecoms market review for the withdrawal of copper services, which includes 100% ultrafast broadband coverage in the exchange area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 10/09/2021 10:10:05 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1347794

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of CircleLoop which placed the UK 28th in the world for broadband speeds; and what steps he is taking to accelerate full-fibre and 5G rollout.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	34500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>CircleLoop’s 'Connected Countries’ report ranks countries using average download speed data, rather than the maximum speed available. Given the pace of the gigabit rollout in the UK, it is understandable that in some cases consumers may wish to wait until their current contract ends before seeking higher speeds.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government remains committed to delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity as soon as possible. Today, over two in five premises can access gigabit-capable networks, up from just one in ten in November 2019. By the end of the year, 60% will have access to a gigabit network, and we are on track to achieving a minimum of 85% gigabit-capable coverage by 2025.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is the government's view that the best way to achieve nationwide gigabit coverage is to remove barriers to deployment and create a competition-friendly environment in areas where deployment is commercially viable, while focussing government funds on the 20% of the country where commercial deployment is unlikely. To support the hardest-to-reach areas, we have launched Project Gigabit, our £5bn programme to ensure these areas receive gigabit coverage within the same timescales as the rest of the country.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>5G Network deployment plans are a matter for the mobile network operators, but the government is undertaking a number of actions to support this. We will shortly publish our response to the consultation on potential reforms to the Electronic Communications Code, which sought views on how we can better facilitate the deployment of new networks, including 5G. Alongside this, we have also consulted on reforms to the planning system to support 5G deployment and extend mobile coverage, and we intend to publish our response to the consultation and bring forward legislation in the Autumn.</p><p>We are confident that through these actions we will achieve our 5G rollout ambitions for the majority of the population to have access to a 5G signal by 2027.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 26/07/2021 15:45:45 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah