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HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for intervening just as I was finishing my remarks. There is no legislative flaw on the speed of a service that a commercial operator might seek to install,…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)Clause 2 is a brief but important clause that introduces the schedule that makes related amendments to two pieces of legislation to complement the Bill. That legislation is the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I will be considerably briefer than I would be in a normal stand part debate, because we covered a lot of ground in discussing the amendments. However, suffice it to say that the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I can return to my conciliatory tone, in the sense that in this case we are interested, through both Ofcom and the Department, to see what can be done on infrastructure sharing.…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I am delighted to intervene spontaneously. Essentially we are having a conversation about whether there is a universal right to internet access, and whether that should be…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I come back to my central point, which is that the Bill addresses the problem of landlords who do not respond. Ultimately, it does not confer a right to install equipment against…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)The important point is that there has to be a formal response “in writing”. By definition, in responding a landlord ceases to be unresponsive. This legislation aims to deal with…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)Once again, I absolutely understand the spirit in which the hon. Lady raises the amendment, and I admire her gymnastic ability to bring all the points about leasehold into a…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I do not wish to sound less conciliatory than previously, but those matters are already defined in the Bill. I will briefly go through them, but the definitions that the hon. Lady…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)The hon. Lady asks for coherence, but when I offer it to her she says that she does not like it. It is important to say that guidance from the NCSC is already out there, and the…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)My understanding is that, within the context of this Bill, a tenant would absolutely be within the legal definition. I am not pretending that I am wholly answering the hon. Lady’s…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)rose—11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)The hon. Member asks me to pre-empt what will be an important piece of legislation. What I can say is that we will ensure that nothing in today’s legislation could be used to…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)I accept the spirit.11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)Ultimately, it is for the telecommunications provider to make the request, having been contacted by people with an interest in the building. However, it is important that it does…11 Feb 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill (First sitting)They can make the request but, within the scope of the Bill, there is also a requirement for consent from the freeholder, for instance.11 Feb 2020HANSARDUK TelecommunicationsMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has made the following statement. The telecoms supply chain…28 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiMy hon. Friend highlights the dilemma that everybody faces in a world in which there are not as many vendors of this kit as we would all like. We have to balance the primary…27 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiThe hon. Gentleman is right to refer to that guidance, but it is of course the case that this country is profoundly different from China, and indeed any other country, in that we…27 Jan 2020HANSARD5G Network and HuaweiMy hon. Friend’s quote from a great American poet emphasises that it is important to get these decisions right, but it is also important to ensure that we get the boundaries…27 Jan 2020