1-4 of 4 results for house:"House of Lords"
Librarians' tools
- Search time
- 0.307 seconds
- Solr query time
- 0.005 seconds
- Search query
- house:"House of Lords"
- We searched for
- legislature_ses:25277
Type
House
Session
Year
Department
More
Member
Primary member
More
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to roll out superfast broadband to rural areas of the United Kingdom.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to roll out superfast broadband to rural areas of the United Kingdom.
On 9 February 2015 the Government announced that 2 million premises have been passed by its Superfast Broadband Programme, meaning that superfast broadband is now available to almost 80% of UK premises, up from 45% in 2010. The Government funding is supporting further investment by the private sector to ensure that the benefits of better broadband are extended as widely as possible.
Through over 50 local projects the Government, Local Authorities and Devolved Administrations are investing over £1.7 billion in improving broadband. The Superfast Broadband Programme is being delivered in three phases:
· Phase 1 (formerly known as the Rural Broadband Programme) aims to provide superfast broadband coverage to 90% of UK homes and businesses by early 2016 and provide access to standard broadband (2Mbps) for all
· Phase 2 aims to provide superfast broadband coverage to 95% of the UK by 2017
· Phase 3 is testing options to roll-out superfast broadband beyond 95%
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the lack of superfast broadband on businesses, farming communities, households and the elderly, particularly in rural areas.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the lack of superfast broadband on businesses, farming communities, households and the elderly, particularly in rural areas.
The benefits of superfast broadband are summarised in the UK Broadband Impact Study (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-broadband-impact-study--2). This looked at a wide range of benefits, including considerations around different business sectors, and rurality. Given the benefits identified the Government aims to provide 95 per cent superfast broadband coverage by 2017, and is exploring options for taking coverage beyond that level.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to fast-track those rural areas which have not received funding for superfast broadband.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to fast-track those rural areas which have not received funding for superfast broadband.
Superfast Broadband will be available to 95% of UK homes and businesses by 2017. The Government is undertaking a number of market testing pilot projects to explore options for extending coverage beyond the 95% level.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will use Compton Bassett in Wiltshire as a pilot test case for installing superfast broadband in rural areas due to its special and unusual challenges.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will use Compton Bassett in Wiltshire as a pilot test case for installing superfast broadband in rural areas due to its special and unusual challenges.
The Government remains committed to taking superfast broadband coverage further than the 95% level to be achieved by current programmes, but there are no current plans to undertake a pilot exercise in Compton Bassett.