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HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI thank the Labour party for its support, however grudging. It is important to say what this Government have done over the last 10 years, however the hon. Member for Batley and…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI look forward to encountering the hon. Lady across the Dispatch Box—it would be mean not to give way to her.22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillWe will, of course, be talking much more extensively and consulting on various aspects of the plan, which the hon. Lady will see emerge in good time. We are genuinely keen to be…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThe hon. Gentleman is right that effective competition is absolutely essential to rolling out broadband in the best possible way. I have seen for myself in Dundrum and Belfast a…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThe hon. Member is absolutely right. My point about teachers was that when they send pupils home to do their homework, pupils must of course have to have the tools to do it. The…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillYes, the hon. Member is absolutely right. Teachers can only teach at the pace of the slowest broadband in the class if they are using digital technology; we have to be cognisant…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that the system is only as good as the resourcing behind it. We will explore every option to ensure that the tribunal gets those resources. We…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. With apologies to T.S. Eliot, it is obvious that the naming of Bills is a difficult matter, but this Bill’s title does not…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI can absolutely assure my right hon. Friend that our approach to connectivity is technology-agnostic, and 5G is very much part of the solution, rather than something leading to…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI give way to the former Chair of the Select Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillTelecommunications is a reserved matter, but I have already discussed how the system will work through the equivalent tribunal schemes in the devolved Administrations. The hon.…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillAbsolutely. My hon. Friend will know that the single greatest barrier to rolling out in the final 20% of the country is the risk of overbuild, which makes roll-out uneconomic and…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillYork is an exemplar for these sorts of projects. It demonstrates why investment is the right thing to do for the commercial sector, and why it is right for the state to support…22 Jan 2020HANSARD Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy hon. Friend is right that we should not simply look at residential property. We are exploring with the industry what that issue looks like; the Bill has been carefully designed…22 Jan 2020HANSARDFull-fibre and Gigabit-capable BroadbandThe hon. Member is absolutely right that B4RN does really great work and has been doing so for a number of years. It has a huge amount of expertise that I hope we can learn from…16 Jan 2020HANSARDFull-fibre and Gigabit-capable BroadbandMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the deeply disappointing delays to the R100 scheme administered by the Scottish Government. I will shortly be meeting my Scottish counterpart,…16 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right that we must ensure that the 10-megabit universal service obligation is delivered on the ground. We will of course continue to talk to the two providers—…16 Jan 2020HANSARDFull-fibre and Gigabit-capable BroadbandAs an engineer, I think the hon. Lady will know that a bell is not telecoms infrastructure, but we will leave that to one side. The important issue that she raises is one on which…16 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is right that we hear a lot of nonsense in this Chamber—primarily from the SNP Benches. It is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government’s delivery of R100…16 Jan 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsSilicon Stoke is certainly a real possibility, and my hon. Friend is right that that is in part due to this Government’s £5 billion commitment. I welcome the council’s work with…16 Jan 2020