Broadband Speed

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts

Thursday 19th July 2018 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

The cunning plan, to reassure the noble Baroness, is perhaps in the marvellously worded “barrier-busting task force”. This is designed to help relax planning laws and to roll out, particularly in rural areas, faster broadband.

[Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)]

My Lords, will my noble friend extend the voucher scheme for rural areas which is due to expire on 31 December and be mindful of the rural businesses in North Yorkshire that do not reach even 2 Mbps and are currently taking advantage of the scheme?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

I reassure my noble friend that in places that my noble friend has alluded to the minimum megabit per second legal obligation will come into force.