Question follow-through · 8523
Project Gigabit: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make it his policy to ringfence Project Gigabit funding for rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make it his policy to ringfence Project Gigabit funding for rural areas.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
No. Project Gigabit is designed to subsidise the rollout of gigabit-capable broadband to premises that would otherwise not be reached by suppliers’ commercial plans.These premises will predominantly be in rural areas, but the evidence from our regular eng...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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