| Heading: |
Broadband: Rural Areas |
| Question ID: |
1816244 |
| UIN: |
904817 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5327 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Vikki Slade
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| Asking Member handle: |
vikkislade72
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@vikkislade72
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the effective roll out of broadband infrastructure in rural areas. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
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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: |
Project Gigabit is designed to deliver gigabit-capable broadband to premises that will not be built to by the market without subsidy. The significant majority of these premises will be in rural areas.More than £2.3 billion of Project Gigabit contracts hav... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |