Baroness Neville-Rolfe corrected a written answer on Broadband

7 December 2015 · Lords written answer · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Lord Wills (Labour, Life peer) asked written question HL3417 on 9 November 2015. Baroness Neville-Rolfe answered on 26 November 2015 for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Baroness Neville-Rolfe corrected the answer on 7 December 2015. The corrected text adds the figure 95 per cent, which the original did not give. Altogether 26 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their latest assessment of regional variations in achieving their target of establishing superfast broadband coverage to 90 per cent of the UK by 2016.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
The Government is committed ~~toprovidingsuperfast~~ broadband coverage to 95 per ~~centof~~ UK ~~premisesby~~ 2017. At the end Phase 1 of the programme, we expect to reach 90 per cent coverage across the UK -and more than 90 per cent superfast coverage in around two thirds of local body partnership areas. For the longer term the Government will also launch a public consultation early next year in preparation for the implementation of a new ~~broadbandUniversal~~ Service ~~Obligation,with~~ the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 ~~Mbps,nomatterwherein~~ the ~~countrytheylive.~~ Data on regional and local coverage of superfast broadband was published by Ofcom in its Infrastructure Report in December 2014: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv . DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&td=2015-04-01&house=1&search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&itemId=122028#toggle-163	The Government is committed to providing superfast broadband coverage to 95 per cent of UK premises by 2017. At the end Phase 1 of the programme, we expect to reach 90 per cent coverage across the UK -and more than 90 per cent superfast coverage in around two thirds of local body partnership areas. For the longer term the Government will also launch a public consultation early next year in preparation for the implementation of a new broadband Universal Service Obligation, with the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 Mbps, no matter where in the country they live. Data on regional and local coverage of superfast broadband was published by Ofcom in its Infrastructure Report in December 2014: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv . DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&td=2015-04-01&house=1&search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&itemId=122028#toggle-163

Original

Corrected

The Government is committed ~~toprovidingsuperfast~~ broadband coverage to 95 per ~~centof~~ UK ~~premisesby~~ 2017. At the end Phase 1 of the programme, we expect to reach 90 per cent coverage across the UK -and more than 90 per cent superfast coverage in around two thirds of local body partnership areas. For the longer term the Government will also launch a public consultation early next year in preparation for the implementation of a new ~~broadbandUniversal~~ Service ~~Obligation,with~~ the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 ~~Mbps,nomatterwherein~~ the ~~countrytheylive.~~
Data on regional and local coverage of superfast broadband was published by Ofcom in its Infrastructure Report in December 2014:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv .
DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&td=2015-04-01&house=1&search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&itemId=122028#toggle-163

The Government is committed to providing superfast broadband coverage to 95 per cent of UK premises by 2017. At the end Phase 1 of the programme, we expect to reach 90 per cent coverage across the UK -and more than 90 per cent superfast coverage in around two thirds of local body partnership areas. For the longer term the Government will also launch a public consultation early next year in preparation for the implementation of a new broadband Universal Service Obligation, with the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 Mbps, no matter where in the country they live.
Data on regional and local coverage of superfast broadband was published by Ofcom in its Infrastructure Report in December 2014:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv .
DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&td=2015-04-01&house=1&search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&itemId=122028#toggle-163

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