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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Thursday Volume 596 4 June 2015 No. 11 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 4 June 2015 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2015 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 731 4 JUNE 2015 732 in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. This should take House of Commons superfast broadband coverage to an additional 130,000 homes and businesses across the two counties, providing Thursday 4 June 2015 almost 93% coverage by the end of 2017. Small and medium-sized enterprises in Gloucester and Cheltenham The House met at half-past Nine o’clock are now eligible for a grant of up to £3,000 to improve their broadband connectivity under the broadband connection voucher scheme. PRAYERS Alex Chalk: I thank the Secretary of State for his [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] answer. None the less, a significant number of homes and businesses in Cheltenham fall between two stools, being, apparently, not sufficiently rural for Fastershire Oral Answers to Questions to see fit to step in but too rural for commercial providers to consider it viable to extend broadband provision. Will he meet me to discuss how we can help those stuck CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT in limbo and cut this Gordian knot? The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Mr Whittingdale: First, I congratulate my hon. Friend was asked— on his election to this House and commend him on his efforts on behalf of his constituents in order that they should obtain superfast broadband. He will be aware Bridge that 96% of Cheltenham will already have access to it by the end of 2017, which is above the national target, 1. Bob Blackman (Harrow East) (Con): What and many small and medium-sized enterprises can also assessment he has made of the implications for his benefit from the broadband connection voucher I Department’s policies of the designation of bridge as a mentioned. We are examining ways of extending the mind sport. [900095] reach beyond that 96%, but I would of course be happy The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, to meet him and some of his constituents to discuss Media and Sport (Tracey Crouch): My hon. Friend will what more we might do to help. know that bridge is not currently designated as a sport. The High Court will consider a judicial review on the Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con) rose— definition of sport from the English Bridge Union in September, to which the Government will respond Mr Speaker: Order. I note the ingenuity of the hon. accordingly. Member for Sherwood (Mark Spencer), but Nottinghamshire is a little distance away from Bob Blackman: I welcome my hon. Friend to her Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. post. Her prowess on the football field is well known, but I wish to address the issue of mind sports. At the moment, Sport England refuses to fund bridge, chess, Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury) (Con): May I go and other mind sports. Her predecessor was investigating support the words of my hon. Friend the Member for this, but will she update us on what progress has been Cheltenham (Alex Chalk) and remind the Secretary of made to ensure that Sport England does recognise mind State that many rural villages, certainly in my constituency, sports for their ability to train the mind? still do not have sufficiently strong broadband connections? That hampers people who are running small businesses Tracey Crouch: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for from home, as well as children who are trying to use the his kind words. As he rightly said, Sport England does internet to learn. What can he do to speed up the not currently recognise the term “mind sports” and provision in those small villages? does not provide funding to games such as bridge and chess. As I mentioned, the High Court is considering a Mr Whittingdale: I understand my hon. Friend’s concern judicial review on the definition of “sport” from the for his constituents, particularly those in more rural English Bridge Union. I recognise that many of these areas. As he may be aware, under phase 1 of the games are enjoyed by many people and that the mental broadband scheme we expect to reach 87.1% of premises agility required in this activity can help with conditions, across the whole of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire bringing many health or wellbeing benefits. I therefore by December 2016, and under phase 2 we hope to suggest that if he would like to seek funding support for extend that to 92.8%. Those in the more remote areas these games, he does so through the Department for may still prove to be outside, and we will be looking at Education or the Department of Health. alternative means by which we can reach them with Broadband Coverage (Gloucestershire) superfast broadband, but, again, I am happy to talk him further about this. 2. Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con): What steps his Department is taking to improve broadband coverage Superfast Broadband in Gloucestershire. [900096] The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 3. Heidi Allen (South Cambridgeshire) (Con): What (Mr John Whittingdale): The Government have committed progress his Department is making on the roll-out of nearly £27 million to the roll-out of superfast broadband superfast broadband. [900097] 733 Oral Answers4 JUNE 2015 Oral Answers 734 The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport we will eventually be able to do so, but in the meantime (Mr John Whittingdale): More than 2.5 million additional I entirely agree with him that it is important that people homes and businesses now have access to superfast should be aware of that position. We are introducing a broadband as a result of the Government’s intervention. seven-digit postcode checker, which is now on the gov.uk We continue to add 40,000 more homes and businesses website, so that people can be made aware of that every week. position. Heidi Allen: I feel that I am about to gatecrash a Broadband Coverage party, but we have exactly the same situation in South Cambridgeshire. Connecting Cambridgeshire is doing a 4. Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/ fantastic job of rolling out broadband across much of Co-op): When there will be universal broadband the constituency, but our roads are at gridlock—a happy coverage in the UK. [900098] consequence of our economic success—and it is vital that we keep people working in local hubs and from The Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy home. I, too, am interested in what other technologies (Mr Edward Vaizey): I am pleased to tell the hon. Lady we might explore to reach those people who are missing, that 97% of UK homes and businesses already have so please may I come along too? access to 2 megabit per second broadband, up from less than 90% in 2010. We hope that all homes will have it by Mr Whittingdale: I congratulate my hon. Friend on the end of 2015. her election and she is a very welcome party guest. The Government are investing more than £8 million in Meg Hillier: I welcome the Secretary of State to his Connecting Cambridgeshire, which will increase position. I had hoped that he and the Secretary of State coverage in her constituency to 94% by 2017. As she for Business, Innovation and Skills would form a dream pointed out, there will be some areas that are much team to tackle the nightmare of broadband coverage in harder to reach and it might not be possible to do so by this country, including in areas such as mine in Shoreditch. the traditional methods, so we are running pilot projects Can the Minister explain why millions of pounds of to explore other ways in which we can bring coverage public money has gone in and yet, as we have heard up to reach even the furthest parts of her and other from other hon. Members today, there is still a serious hon. Members’ constituencies. I would be happy to talk problem across the UK with what should be a 21st century to her further. utility? 20. [900114] Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con): Further Mr Vaizey: I will suppress my personal hurt that the to that answer, what more can we do to support hon. Lady would prefer to deal with the Secretary of alternative ways of delivering broadband, such as that State rather than me, although we have dealt with her offered by W3Z in my constituency, which can provide issues in Shoreditch over many months. I am pleased, high-speed broadband to the most rural homes and for example, that in her constituency many businesses can get it to them far quicker than fibre broadband are taking advantage of broadband vouchers, that Virgin will? Media is rolling out broadband and that BT is investing in broadband. Across the country, more than 2.5 million Mr Whittingdale: My hon. Friend is completely right homes are covered by our very successful programme. that although fibre will, we hope, supply superfast broadband to the overwhelming majority of premises 12. [900106] John Howell (Henley) (Con): As the in the country there will be some for which it is not Minister knows, my constituency is sandwiched practical. That is why we are piloting alternatives through between Reading and Oxford and is only a stone’s our three pilot projects testing fixed wireless technologies throw from London, but there is great frustration at the in rural areas in North Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire impoverishment of the broadband coverage there.
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