DCMS recall (Broadband)

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 21 Sep 2021 Closed: 7 Apr 2022 Parliament page
In January 2021 the Committee reported that problems with the rollout of superfast broadband across the UK meant that digital inequality risks compounding the economic inequality “harshly” exposed by the pandemic . In this inquiry the Committee will recall DCMS officials for an update on progress towards the Government’s revised … Read more
5 Recommendations
22 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
4 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 7 events
28 Apr
2022
Report published
7 Feb
2022
Correspondence
19 Jan
2022
Report published
6 Dec
2021
Correspondence
6 Dec
2021
Correspondence
4 Nov
2021
Oral evidence
2 Nov
2021
Correspondence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
4 Nov 2021
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DCMS Recall (Broadband)
Imran Shafi · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Paul Norris · Building Digital UK Sarah Healey · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Susannah Storey · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering gigabitcapable broadband HC 743 19 Jan 2022 27 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
6 results
Clear
6 Recommendation Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
The Department does not have a detailed plan to ensure that those in the very...
The Department does not have a detailed plan to ensure that those in the very hardest to reach areas are not being left behind. The Department’s commitment to delivering 85% coverage by 2025 and full coverage by 2030 does not … Read more
Government Response
The department will need to reach three key milestones: completion of all remaining market surveys, signing a material number of contracts, and achieving sufficient clarity on the number of premises likely to be beyond the scope of the programme to be ready to form more robust profiles for the period beyond 2025 by Summer 2023.
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19 Conclusion Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
The government’s decision in July 2020 to reduce its dependency on technology originating from certain...
The government’s decision in July 2020 to reduce its dependency on technology originating from certain high-risk vendors could introduce delays and additional expense to nationwide roll-out.61 The Department estimated that the removal of high-risk vendors’ 52 DRB0004 DCMS recall (Broadband), … Read more
Government Response
BDUK will publish its profile to reach at least 5% of non-commercial premises by the end of 2025 in its 2022-23 corporate plan and will continue to publish quarterly updates. The department will publish further details later this year on policy options for premises beyond the scope of the programme.
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22 Conclusion Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
Those areas that currently have sub-superfast broadband speeds (30 Mbps or below) are more likely...
Those areas that currently have sub-superfast broadband speeds (30 Mbps or below) are more likely to be in the 20% of premises that the Department thinks will be unviable for commercial providers. Only 21% of premises in rural ‘county areas’ … Read more
Government Response
BDUK will publish its profile to reach at least 5% of non-commercial premises by the end of 2025 in its 2022-23 corporate plan and will continue to publish quarterly updates. The department will publish further details later this year on policy options for premises beyond the scope of the programme.
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25 Conclusion Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
The Department regards 0.3% of premises in the UK as being “very hard to reach,...
The Department regards 0.3% of premises in the UK as being “very hard to reach, ” and acknowledged that these do not feature within its target of achieving full national coverage by 2030.77 These are typically the most rural and … Read more
Government Response
A call for evidence was made in March 2021, and the government published its response in February 2022, and will publish further details later this year after assessing policy options. The department will address this recommendation in its letter to the Committee.
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26 Conclusion Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
At our last evidence session in November 2020, the Department told us that it was...
At our last evidence session in November 2020, the Department told us that it was assessing the value for money of alternative technologies for delivering the fastest speeds possible to hard-to-reach premises.80 The Department told us that it was looking … Read more
Government Response
The government published its response to the call for evidence in February 2022, and this evidence will be used to assess policy options to understand how best to address the small minority of premises that will be beyond the scope of the programme. The department will publish further details later this year.
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27 Conclusion Deferred
Thirty-Second Report - Delivering …
We asked why the Department had not made more progress in identifying what would be...
We asked why the Department had not made more progress in identifying what would be needed to connect the hardest to reach areas and how it would ensure that people in these aren’t were pushed to the back to the … Read more
Government Response
A call for evidence was made in March 2021, and the government published its response in February 2022, and will publish further details later this year after assessing policy options. The department will address this recommendation in its letter to the Committee.
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Government Response AI assessment · 27 of 5 classified
Accepted 10
Acknowledged 8
Deferred 6
Not Addressed 3
Total 5 recs + 22 conclusions
Correspondence 4 letters
7 Feb 2022 Correspondence from Sarah Healey, Permanent Secretary, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, re DCMS Recall - Response to follow up requests on National Lottery, Gambling and CRF, dated 31 January 2022
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6 Dec 2021 Correspondence from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport relating to DCMS recall and Broadband, dated 3 December 2021
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6 Dec 2021 Correspondence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport relating to DCMS recall and Broadband, dated 2 December 2021
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2 Nov 2021 Correspondence from Sarah Healey, Permanent Secretary, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, re broadband report, dated 22 October 2021
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