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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Thursday Volume 574 30 January 2014 No. 115 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 30 January 2014 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2014 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 987 30 JANUARY 2014 988 and it is crucial they get good quality, fast broadband. House of Commons It is as important for the last 10% as it is for the first 10%. Thursday 30 January 2014 Maria Miller: As I am sure my hon. Friend knows, the Government are already investing more than £7 million The House met at half-past Nine o’clock in superfast broadband in Derbyshire, and the additional money that we have pledged—£250 million—will give further coverage in his area, but it will be up to the local PRAYERS authority to ensure that it is targeted in the right way. I am sure he will work with the local authority to ensure that that is done well. [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside) (Lab): More than a third of all new properties benefiting from superfast broadband are in Wales. Will the Secretary of State Oral Answers to Questions applaud the Welsh Assembly Government for their success in that area, and what does she think she can learn from Wales for England? CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Maria Miller: I thank the hon. Gentleman for bringing up the situation in Wales. Of course, the coalition Government are proud to have ensured that that funding The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport was in place to make that happen for the people of was asked— Wales. As he will know, if it was up to the Labour party, all that the people of Wales would be receiving by now Superfast Broadband is 2 megabits, which would absolutely not have been right for businesses in his area. 1. Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth) (Con): What funding her Department is making available to ensure Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith) (Lab/ the final 10% of premises get access to superfast Co-op): There appear to be a large number of businesses broadband. [902283] and houses in my constituency, right in the centre of Edinburgh, that will not get superfast broadband in the 5. Andrew Bingham (High Peak) (Con): What foreseeable future. I have been in touch with the right funding her Department is making available to ensure hon. Lady’s Department, the Scottish Government, the the final 10% of premises get access to superfast council and BT, but nobody seems to be able to offer broadband. [902287] any hope that we will get superfast broadband. What is she going to do about it? The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Maria Miller): The Government have committed a Maria Miller: As I am sure the hon. Gentleman further £250 million to extend superfast broadband to knows, it is important for the Scottish Government to 95% of UK premises by 2017. In addition, we are address such issues. I was pleased to see BT pledge only investing £10 million to find ways to provide superfast this week to put an extra £50 million into exactly the broadband to the hardest-to-reach and remotest premises. sorts of areas he is talking about—city-centre areas where that is currently not commercially viable. I welcome Sarah Newton: I welcome my right hon. Friend’s that extra investment from BT. answer. Many homes and businesses are indeed benefiting from superfast broadband, but important local employers 18. [902302] Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con): While are not, such as the Nare hotel on the beautiful but I obviously welcome progress on rural broadband, remote Roseland peninsula. What further assurances certain parts of my constituency, including the Lenches can she give such businesses on how they can expect to and Abbots Morton, are really struggling. Will my receive superfast broadband? right hon. Friend meet me and key stakeholders in those areas to try to find some solutions? Maria Miller: I know that my hon. Friend takes a great interest in this. I think she will be pleased that the Maria Miller: My hon. Friend is absolutely right that existing £132 million Superfast Cornwall project is already we have to keep up the pressure to ensure that we have delivering superfast broadband to 82% of homes in her superfast broadband where it is needed for all the area, and there will be further opportunities to extend different groups that can benefit. Either I or the Under- coverage with the additional £250 million that we have Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for announced. Projects in her area will clearly be eligible Wantage (Mr Vaizey), would be delighted to meet her to bid for such funding. and her constituents, because we want to ensure, working with those providing this vital infrastructure service, Andrew Bingham: I thank my right hon. Friend for that it is getting to the right people in a speedy manner. that answer and for those assurances. In my constituency of High Peak, which is very rural, many farms and Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab): The Secretary businesses are in the last 10%. They have many other of State knows that 5 million people in rural areas still below-spec utilities, such as poor electricity supplies, do not have broadband connection. Really, she must 989 Oral Answers30 JANUARY 2014 Oral Answers 990 admit that the £10 million is just a stop—a sop, I Ann McKechin: The number of bookmakers in the mean—to divert attention from the devastating Public city of Glasgow has increased by 20% in the past seven Accounts Committee report. Can she guarantee that years, and millions of pounds have been lost from our the £250 million she mentioned will not all go to one poorest communities, a situation that has been replicated provider, and can she explain how it is good value for right across the United Kingdom. The city council has money to pay £52 for a connection in a rural area but asked the Scottish Government for powers to limit the £3,000 for a connection in a super-connected city? number of bookmakers in such communities, and I ask the Minister, when she next has contact with the Scottish Maria Miller: I am not sure that the shadow Minister Government, to work together with them, so that there had a total grasp of her question. Perhaps she needs to is co-ordinated action across the United Kingdom to catch up with some of her councillors on the ground empower local authorities with the ability to control the who have a better grasp than she does. I am particularly number of bookmakers in local areas to suit their thinking of County Councillor Sean Serridge, a champion circumstances. for digital inclusion in Lancashire—one of her councillors, I think—who has said that the work we are doing in his Mrs Grant: I hear what the hon. Lady says, but we area believe that local authorities are already so empowered. “is a great achievement and shows that we are well on the way to Local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales have achieving our goal of providing 97 per cent of the county with powers to ensure public protection by using licensing superfast broadband by the end of next year.” conditions afforded by the Gambling Act 2005 brought The difference between the hon. Lady and me is that in by the Government of the right hon. and learned we are getting on with it, while she is just still talking Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman). about it. However, planning is a devolved matter, and it is therefore for the Scottish Government to decide. Mr Speaker: The hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) is clearly in a very jolly mood, and I Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con): I refer to my entry in hope that it is contagious. the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Will the Minister confirm that the recent independent Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) (LD): We health survey showed that considerably more of the are all very jolly in Cumbria that 93% of our homes will richest people in the country played on fixed odds be connected to superfast broadband by this time next betting terminals than the poorest, unlike scratchcards, year. That 7% will not be and will have a minimum of which 16-years-old can play and which considerably 2 megabits per second download speed should trouble more of the poorest people in the country play than the us, particularly when we realise that that means an richest? Does that not demonstrate that Labour Members’ upload speed of only 0.2 megabits per second, which problems with fixed odds betting terminals is not about causes serious problems for businesses in areas that are who the money comes from to put into them, but about not connected. What can my right hon. Friend do to who the money goes to in terms of their prejudice guarantee that the 7% of businesses and residences that against bookmakers? If the money from FOBTs went do not have superfast broadband are helped? to good causes, would there be any campaign against FOBTs? Maria Miller: My hon. Friend makes a really important Mrs Grant: My hon. Friend makes a number of point. That is why we have put in place a £10 million points, and I am not too sure which one to answer. The fund to look at how we can get to hard-to-reach places health survey for England made it quite clear that there with new technology and new ways of doing things.
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