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HANSARDBroadband Providers: CompetitionThe Government are committed to encouraging greater network competition between broadband providers by removing as many barriers to commercial roll-out as we possibly can. We have…04 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Civil Society and CharitiesMy hon. Friend is right that now, more than ever, arts and culture are vital to our society as a whole, and these are immensely challenging times. The £160 million emergency…04 Jun 2020HANSARDBroadband Providers: CompetitionIn the main, the resilience of internet connectivity, both mobile and fixed, over the course of the coronavirus crisis has allowed people to work from home in a way that they…04 Jun 2020HANSARDGigabit BroadbandThis Government have ambitious plans to achieve nationwide roll-out of future-proof gigabit broadband as soon as possible. Delivering these ambitions will unlock huge economic and…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Billindicated dissent .10 Mar 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Today we have had an important debate on an important Bill. The Government have heard loud and clear the points made in…10 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GOur aim is not to be reliant on high-risk vendors at all. I appreciate that my right hon. Friend would like me to set out a timetable for that, but I cannot do that today. There…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI will come on to what we will do to try to promote market diversification in a moment. Suffice it to say, we do not and will never put anything other than national security at…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GYes. Huawei and ZTE are both high-risk vendors, as we have said previously.04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI fear making no progress at all if I keep giving way. Put simply, in the view of the most expert telecommunications specialists in the world, as others have said in the debate, a…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GMy right hon. Friend highlights the need for oversight, which I will come on to talk about in a minute. Telecoms networks are complex. They rely on global supply chains, where…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GThe hon. Member raises a point that I would be happy to cover in another debate, but the Government and I share some of her concerns. It is because of our security and…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI hope my right hon. Friend takes significant comfort from what I have said: we want to get to a position where we are not reliant at all on high-risk vendors. We have confidence…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GMy hon. Friend knows that we have some of the most imaginative experts working for us in our agencies, which is why we are establishing one of the strongest regimes for telecoms…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI will not take any more interventions. We expect that the new regime will include new obligations on telecoms operators to comply with telecoms security requirements, and we are…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GAs I said, we are introducing the new regime because of some of the concerns that my hon. Friend addresses. I reiterate the Government’s offer to put at the disposal of any Member…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI will come to the issue of the network’s core and edge, which will answer some of the questions that Members want to ask. Ian Levy, the technical director of the National Cyber…04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GI will give way briefly to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GAs I say, we want to get to a position where we do not have to use a high-risk vendor in our telecoms network.04 Mar 2020HANSARDHuawei and 5GIn a moment. Although it is driven by security, our decision making reflects the reality of the UK network and the global supply chain marketplace, and that is why diversification…04 Mar 2020