Question follow-through · 58804
Broadband: Mid Dorset and North Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to resume the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to resume the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency.
17 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
As part of Project Gigabit, broadband suppliers are delivering contracts designed to connect a greater number of premises than the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme. Nonetheless, the voucher scheme is still being used on a targeted basis. Building Digital ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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