| Heading: |
Project Gigabit |
| Question ID: |
1762453 |
| UIN: |
29213 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5201 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Victoria Collins
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| Asking Member handle: |
TweetingCollins
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@TweetingCollins
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the progress of Project Gigabit; how many premises have been connected; and what the status of the outstanding procurements is. |
| Is named day: |
true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-11 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1446 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answer text: |
As of the end of March 2024, over one million premises had been upgraded to gigabit-capable broadband through government-funded programmes. Additionally, more than £2 billion of contracts have been signed to provide gigabit-capable coverage to over a mill... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |