Digital Landlines: Rural Communities

Debate between Chris Bryant and Clive Betts
Wednesday 2nd April 2025

(2 days, 15 hours ago)

Westminster Hall
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Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant
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That is literally the point that I made two sentences ago, so I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for reiterating it. The point is that we need to be able to get broadband to every single home in the country. We are working on Project Gigabit to deliver that as far as possible.

I am aware—not least because I am a Welsh MP in Wales—that there are some places in the UK where it is going to be phenomenally difficult to get to every single home with gigabit-capable broadband. That is where other solutions, such as fixed mobile and potentially satellite, are going to have to come into play. We will need to develop new technology to—

Clive Betts Portrait Mr Clive Betts (in the Chair)
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Order.

Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).