Every parliamentary written question tabled by Desmond Swayne this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Innovation and Technology, which company's commercial plans to supply broadband in Godshill prompted the decision to remove Godshill from the contract with Wessex Internet as part of Project Gigabit.
Through Project Gigabit, we are delivering gigabit-capable broadband to premises not included in suppliers’ commercial delivery plans. Suppliers provide details of their commercial build plans to Building Digital UK (BDUK), the part of DSIT responsible fo...
Innovation and Technology, if she will make it her policy to reduce the Passive Infrastructure Access charges to broadband providers installing their own cabling parallel to existing Openreach broadband infrastructure.
As the independent regulator for telecommunications, Ofcom is responsible for making regulatory decisions in the fixed telecoms sector, including on the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product. PIA rental charges are set by Ofcom and based on the total cost of the physical infrastructure that Openreach needs to recover. While we are engaging with Ofcom on this issue, it is for the regulator to assess the fair level of these rental charges and DSIT has not made any formal assessment with regard to PIA charges.