Thirty-Second Report - Delivering gigabitcapable broadband
Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee
HC 743
19 January 2022
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Thirty Second report from Session 2021-22 · published 28 Apr 2022
Recommendations & Conclusions
6 results
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Recommendation
Deferred
The Department does not have a detailed plan to ensure that those in the very...
Recommendation
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 …
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Government Response Summary
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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Conclusion
Deferred
The government’s decision in July 2020 to reduce its dependency on technology originating from certain...
Conclusion
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), …
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Government Response Summary
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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Conclusion
Deferred
Those areas that currently have sub-superfast broadband speeds (30 Mbps or below) are more likely...
Conclusion
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’ …
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Government Response Summary
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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Conclusion
Deferred
The Department regards 0.3% of premises in the UK as being “very hard to reach,...
Conclusion
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 …
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Government Response Summary
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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Conclusion
Deferred
At our last evidence session in November 2020, the Department told us that it was...
Conclusion
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 …
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Government Response Summary
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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Conclusion
Deferred
We asked why the Department had not made more progress in identifying what would be...
Conclusion
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 …
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Government Response Summary
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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