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1315662

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2021
	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: Southport
	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 his Department is taking to increase broadband speeds in Southport.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government is working with mobile operators and suppliers to build an open, flexible, and diverse telecoms supply market, following the recommendations of the Diversification Taskforce, published on 20 April on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/telecoms-diversification-taskforce-findings-and-report/telecoms-diversification-taskforce-findings-and-report" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Taskforce recommendations are helping to guide our approach delivering the Diversification strategy, including its central pillar of attracting new suppliers. The Government is designing a programme of targeted R&amp;D to level the playing field for smaller suppliers, and we continue to consider all options.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Suppliers are themselves taking positive steps to support this agenda and a number of smaller suppliers have already announced new research facilities in the UK.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The government is committed to delivering lightning-fast, reliable broadband to everyone in the UK. ‘Project Gigabit’ is ambitious, challenging and central to how we build back better. Our plan - to stimulate investment, bust barriers and drive competition - is working. We are on track for one of the fastest rollouts in Europe and for 60% of all households to have access to gigabit speeds by the end of the year. It is a huge leap forward from 2019, when it was 9%.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are backing Project Gigabit with £5 billion so hard to reach communities are not left out - starting to level up now, not waiting for the end of the commercial rollout, and building on the half a million rural homes and businesses already given coverage through our support.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">As part of Project Gigabit we are funding up to £210 million worth of vouchers over the next three years to help with the costs of installing gigabit to people’s doorsteps and up to £110 million to connect up to 7,000 rural public buildings such as GP surgeries, libraries and schools. All premises not covered through these measures or through commercial coverage will be in scope for new Project Gigabit contracts.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">According to Thinkbroadband (<a href="http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/E14000958" target="_blank">http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/E14000958</a>) 99.61% of premises in Southport currently has access to superfast broadband - up from 23% in 2011. On top of this, 19% also have access to Gigabit speeds. So far, 9 gigabit connection vouchers have been issued in the Southport area with a value of £19,600. Eligibility of other premises for vouchers can be checked at <a href="https://gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk/ </a></ins></p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 26/05/2021 10:02:45 question first ministerially corrected 27/05/2021 14:48:37 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman previous answer version 2742 answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1287699

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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: Rural Areas
	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 his Department is taking to improve home broadband connections for people in (a) rural and (b) semi-rural locations who are continuing to work from home.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <ul><li><p>DCMS are working tirelessly to improve home broadband connections. £2.6bn public funding is committed to subsidising the roll-out of broadband infrastructure in harder-to-reach areas through the government's Superfast Broadband programme. The original programme target of 95% was achieved and we have continued beyond this to greater than 96%.</p></li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li><p>Over 96.6% of UK premises have access to superfast (30Mbps) broadband, with 5.3 million additional homes and businesses in both rural and semi-rural areas having superfast broadband available for the first time thanks to the government’s investment in the Superfast programme. (Source: ThinkBroadband)</p></li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li><p>Blackpool has recently completed an LFFN project, which has enabled the development of a full fibre broadband network throughout Blackpool comprising the re-use of existing Blackpool network assets, the build of an additional 20.678km underground duct infrastructure and the installation of 54.5km of fibre optic cables. The project has enabled business and consumers across the authority access to Gigabit services as part of the deployment of the network.</p></li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li><p>The Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme, launched in May 2019 acting as the first step towards piloting the “Outside-In” approach identified in the FTIR. The programme was set up to trial the LFFN PSBU delivery mechanism, to provide gigabit capable connectivity to public sector buildings (Hubs), along with vouchers to eligible residential and business premises in rural and remote areas. The RGC programme is combining both demand and supply-side interventions.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>The programme focused on targeting Hubs located within the Final 10% &amp; 20% of least commercially viable areas across the UK identified through DCMS modelling (This was originally only the F10%, however this was altered to the F20% following the Year 2 business case submission to HMT in March 2020).</p></li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li><p>The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme was a pilot which has enabled us to test different approaches to stimulate the broadband market and to support the installation of gigabit-capable broadband to homes and businesses; it has been very successful and we're going to build on this success with a new voucher in April, while also taking the opportunity to refine our approach to ensure that we focus support on the hardest to reach premises.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 08/03/2021 17:09:00 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1289659

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	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 his Department are taking to ensure areas designated OFCOM area 2 can access Government schemes to improve their broadband speeds.
	tabling member constituency	Broxtowe
	tabling member printed	Darren Henry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	158228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>The government’s ambition is to deliver nationwide gigabit-capable broadband as soon as possible. We are working with industry to target a minimum of 85% gigabit-capable coverage by 2025 but will seek to accelerate rollout further to get as close to 100% as possible. We expect that approximately 80% of UK premises will be delivered by industry commercially without the need for public subsidy. It will be more difficult to deliver gigabit connectivity to the hardest to reach 20% of the premises, which is why the government has announced £5 billion to deliver gigabit-capable connectivity to these premises as fast as possible.</p><p>For their proposed regulation for the 2021-26 period, Ofcom have defined two geographic markets: Area 2, accounting for roughly 70% of premises, where there is already some material commercial deployment by rival networks to BT Openreach or where this could be economic based on information provided to Ofcom by operators; and Area 3 - where Ofcom believes there is unlikely to be material commercial deployment by rivals to BT Openreach.</p><p>Ofcom has not yet officially confirmed the premises in these market areas as they are still under review following a consultation that closed on 8 December 2020. Ofcom expects to publish their final decisions by 31 March 2021.</p><p>DCMS’ £5 billion UK Gigabit programme will prioritise areas that are in the hardest to reach 20% premises in the country and, within that, the c.3% of premises that do not have access to superfast broadband. For this reason, our programme is unlikely to initially prioritise areas that are designated in Ofcom’s Area 2 as this will avoid the risk of crowding out commercial investment, and provide value for public money whilst delivering to those areas most in need.</p><p>However, DCMS will continue to conduct market surveys as part of the UK Gigabit programme, through which telecom operators provide detailed information on their commercial build plans. If it becomes clear that premises in Ofcom’s Area 2 are unlikely to benefit from a commercially delivered gigabit programme within a reasonable timeframe, then DCMS will take this into account when considering eligibility for government schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/03/2021 15:44:26 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4794 label Biography information for Darren Henry

1289697

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	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	Charities: Coronavirus
	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 fiscal steps his Department is taking to support charities during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	158038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government made a £750 million package of support available, specifically for charities, social enterprises and the voluntary sector. This ensured that charities and other civil society organisations, including those at risk of financial hardship, could continue their vital work during the Covid-19 outbreak. To date, over 15,000 charities have received funding. This includes household names such as St John Ambulance, NSPCC, Age UK, Barnardo’s and the British Red Cross as well as over 8,000 small organisations.</p><p>On top of this, the Government continues to make an unprecedented multi-billion-pound package of support available across the economy to enable organisations to get through the months ahead. Charities continue to access these schemes, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, grants for organisations that have been required to close, including retail and leisure facilities, deferral of VAT bills to the end of June, and government backed loan schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/03/2021 15:07:13 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1293472

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2021
	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 estimate he has made of the average broadband requirement of a family all of whom are working and studying from home.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	160655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>In order to ensure that households have the connectivity they need during Covid-19, the Government and Ofcom agreed a set of commitments with the telecoms industry in March 2020. In recognition of increased data needs, data limits were removed on all fixed broadband connections.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Government and Ofcom’s view is that a minimum of 10Mbps download and 1Mbps upload fixed broadband speeds is sufficient for households to undertake regular online activity and view streaming services, whilst supporting multiple users in a household.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As such, any consumer who is unable to receive these speeds is entitled to request a connection as part of the broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO). The USO speeds are kept under review. The USO is intended as a digital “safety net” for premises that currently lack a decent broadband connection. According to Ofcom’s Connection Nations Report 2020, broadband connections that deliver this minimum speed are available to 99.4% of UK premises.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There is also good coverage of higher broadband speeds available to most households. According to thinkbroadband.com, 97% can access speeds of 24Mbps and over, and 96% 30Mbps and over.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 09/03/2021 17:05:35 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1293662

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2021
	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 proportion of residential properties can access fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband in (a) Stockport, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	160845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK’s independent regulator - Ofcom - does not routinely report data on the proportion of properties with access to Fibre to the Cabinet broadband technology and instead focuses on broadband performance by speed through their regular Connected Nations reports.</p><p> </p><p>Fibre to the Cabinet broadband technology can normally deliver superfast download speeds of at least 30Mbps. According to Ofcom’s Connected Nations 2020 report, Stockport currently has 99% superfast coverage, compared to 96% in England as a whole. Greater Manchester comprises a number of local authorities. Superfast coverage in these local authority areas varies from 96% to 99%.</p><p> </p><p>Further information is available from the Connected Nations section of the Ofcom website including figures on access to ultrafast and gigabit broadband speeds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 09/03/2021 16:57:50 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1299391

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	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: Finance
	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 of the £5 billion funding for the gigabit broadband rollout announced in November 2020 will be spent in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23, (c) 2023-24 and (d) 2024-25.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	162594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2021 answer text <p>The government will continue to implement an ambitious programme of work to remove barriers to broadband deployment, and maximise coverage in the hardest to reach areas of the country through our £5 billion UK Gigabit programme.</p><p>DCMS has made significant progress to date with the support of the industry. Over 1 in 3 (34%) premises can now access gigabit-capable broadband, and we expect that gigabit broadband coverage will reach at least 50% during 2021.</p><p>The Spending Review 2020 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spending-review-2020-documents/spending-review-2020#departmental-settlements" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spending-review-2020-documents/spending-review-2020#departmental-settlements</a>) provides further details on our planned year on year capital spend for 2021-22 to 2024-25, which totals £1.2 billion as part of the £5 billion UK Gigabit Programme. DCMS continues to work closely with industry to progress this programme and our year on year rollout plans for these areas.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>2023-24</p></td><td><p>2024-2025</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gigabit Broadband (£ billion)</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 08/03/2021 17:14:58 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1299670

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	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	Nominet
	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 effectiveness of the management of Nominet since 2015; and what discussions his Department has had with (a) Nominet and (b) representatives of its members as a provider of critical digital infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	163261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has regular discussions with Nominet to discuss a range of issues connected with the .uk top level domain name registry, their work to protect essential public services, cyber security, crime prevention and other functions. As the operator of the .uk registry, Nominet is providing an essential service that must satisfy security requirements under the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018. Other functions are managed as a private company with a public purpose objective and any changes to the way in which the registry is managed is done so through a multi-stakeholder approach, which have not been subject to a departmental assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 163262 question first answered 09/03/2021 17:02:42 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1299671

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	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	Nominet
	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 effect of the (a) level of change in executive pay, (b) level of change in public benefit payments and (c) increase in domain name prices by Nominet on the UK’s digital infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	163262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has regular discussions with Nominet to discuss a range of issues connected with the .uk top level domain name registry, their work to protect essential public services, cyber security, crime prevention and other functions. As the operator of the .uk registry, Nominet is providing an essential service that must satisfy security requirements under the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018. Other functions are managed as a private company with a public purpose objective and any changes to the way in which the registry is managed is done so through a multi-stakeholder approach, which have not been subject to a departmental assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 163261 question first answered 09/03/2021 17:02:42 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1300227

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2021
	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: Rural Areas
	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 BDUK contracts for Rural Broadband coverage stipulate that all premises in a region will be covered by that programme.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	164473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2021 answer text <p>The contracts for rural broadband coverage form part of the Department’s supply side interventions managed through Building Digital UK. Stringent planning activity through open market reviews and public reviews set out which premises within a region are able to be targeted as part of a procurement process, setting out an intervention area. If a premise is already served it will not be within scope. It is the subsequent public procurement process that broadband infrastructure providers respond to that confirms which premises within the stipulated intervention area can be modelled and delivered to.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 12/03/2021 16:22:20 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah