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Lord McFall of Alcluith Excerpts
Monday 5th July 2021

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I will clarify what I meant to say, and I apologise if I was not clear. The commercial rollout, Project Gigabit and the rural voucher and other schemes that we have announced will reach all but 0.3% of the country, which is about 100,000 homes. We are not intending that those homes should not get coverage, but that is where some of the technological innovations that my noble friend Lord Holmes of Richmond referred to will come in.

Lord McFall of Alcluith Portrait The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)
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My Lords, the time allowed for this Question has elapsed. We now come to the fourth Oral Question.