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749331

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	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	21st Century Fox: Sky
	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 will make a decision on referring the 21st Century Fox bid for Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority before the summer recess; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Gentleman to the oral statement made to the House on 29 June [Official Report 29 June; Vol 626 Col 762] by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in particular to the response given to the Hon Member for Wellingborough [Col 770]</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:31:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

788435

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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	4G
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in what proportion of UK premises 4G is available.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>As of June 2016, there was 90% geographic voice coverage across the UK from at least one Mobile Network Operator (MNO), and 96% of UK premises had indoor 4G coverage from at least one MNO.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 112610 question first answered 16/11/2017 10:10:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

771435

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	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	5G
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what the £740 million 5G research and infrastructure fund announced in the 2016 Autumn Statement has been spent.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	107884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2016, the Government announced a a £1.1bn package to boost the UK’s digital infrastructure. This sum is intended to cover all future connectivity technologies and cover work in this area until 2020-21. This included investment in a nationally coordinated programme of full fibre and 5G Testbed &amp; Trials.</p><p>To date, the Government has invested £16 million for three leading 5G research institutions to establish a test network to test and trial 5G technologies and applications. This week, a £25 million competition was announced to select projects for initial funding as part of the first Phase of the Testbeds &amp; Trials Programme.</p><p>For the Local Full Fibre (LFFN) Programme, the Government announced in September that £10 million has been allocated for 6 full fibre test projects around the country, in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, West Sussex, Coventry and Warwickshire, Bristol (with Bath and North East Somerset), West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. Further measures will be set out in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 25/10/2017 09:19:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

794506

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	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	Arts: EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if it is her Department's policy that the UK should continue to pay in and be a member of the Creative Europe programme once the UK has left the EU.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	115479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>We remain committed to supporting the UK creative industries and are consulting closely with stakeholders to ensure that any ongoing funding commitments best serve the UK's national interest.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister made clear in her speech in Florence that, where possible, and where they are greatly to the UK and EU's joint advantage, we will want to continue taking part in specific policies and programmes like Creative Europe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 28/11/2017 17:07:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

767446

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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 percentage take-up of superfast broadband is in each region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	106519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on superfast broadband take-up percentage by regions. The 2016 Ofcom Connected Nations report showed average take up percentage by home nation to be:</p><p> </p><p>England - 32%</p><p>Northern Ireland - 34%</p><p>Wales - 24%</p><p>Scotland - 27%</p><p> </p><p>Take up percentages of premises covered by BDUK projects can be found in the 'Table of local broadband projects' on the department's website : https://www.gov.uk/guidance/broadband-delivery-uk#superfast-broadband-programme.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 16/10/2017 13:14:27 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

767452

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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 download speed for fixed broadband services is in each region of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	106514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold information on current average download speed by region. The 2016 Ofcom Connected Nations report showed that the home nations had average download speeds of:</p><p> </p><p>England - 38Mbit/s</p><p>Northern Ireland - 34Mbit/s</p><p>Wales - 29Mbit/s</p><p>Scotland - 35Mbit/s</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 16/10/2017 13:15:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

767453

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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, how many premises in each parliamentary constituency in the UK have taken up a superfast broadband connection.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	106515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold information on superfast broadband take-up percentage by constituency.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 17/10/2017 15:32:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

771432

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	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 percentage of UK premises experience broadband download speeds of less than (a) 1MB/s, (b) 2MB/s, (c) 5MB/s and (d) 10 MB/s.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	107944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this level of information. Think Broadband (http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/uk) publish up-to-date information on the percentage of premises receiving below 2 and 10 MB/s. These are currently reported as follows:</p><p>0.76% of UK premises experience download speeds below 2Mbps.</p><p>2.81% of UK premises experience download speeds of less than 10Mbps.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 24/10/2017 16:07:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

788434

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	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, to what proportion of UK Premises superfast broadband is available.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Over 94 per cent of UK homes and businesses can now access superfast broadband and coverage is on track to reach 95 per cent by the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>Superfast broadband coverage will extend beyond that to at least another 2 per cent of premises. For those not covered by superfast broadband we will ensure universal broadband coverage of at least 10Mbps.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 16/11/2017 10:03:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

944671

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	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, which (a) local authority areas and (b) constituencies have an average download speed for fixed broadband services of less than 30 Mbps.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	166106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>This information is available at the independent website, ‘Thinkbroadband’ (http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/england).</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/07/2018 10:40:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest