Question follow-through · 53994
Broadband: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the 48-hour broadband outage window in the Automatic Compensation Scheme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the 48-hour broadband outage window in the Automatic Compensation Scheme.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The government recognises that access to high-quality and reliable broadband is essential.Operators have a statutory responsibility to take measures to identify, prepare for and reduce anything that compromises the availability, performance or functionali...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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