Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if it is her Department's policy that 5G should be commercially available in at least one major city by 2020.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government’s 5G strategy - published at Budget 2017 - sets out the framework and steps that we will take to ensure that the UK is at the forefront of 5G.
We are taking an active, facilitating role - not least through the 5G Programme of Testbeds and Trials - focused on helping to create the best conditions for the market to develop and deploy 5G in the UK in a timely and efficient manner.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if it is her Department's policy that all (a) urban areas, (b) major trunk roads and (c) railways will have uninterrupted 5G coverage by 2025.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government’s 5G strategy - published at Budget 2017 - sets out the framework and steps that we will take to ensure that the UK is at the forefront of 5G.
We are taking an active, facilitating role - not least through the 5G Programme of Testbeds and Trials - focused on helping to create the best conditions for the market to develop and deploy 5G in the UK in a timely and efficient manner.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the amount spent each year on fixed-odds betting terminals in Glasgow East constituency.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Neither the Department nor the Gambling Commission hold information concerning the number of Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals and, therefore spend in individual constituencies.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle digital exclusion in Glasgow East constituency.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We are committed to tackling digital exclusion. The Digital Skills and Inclusion chapter of the Digital Strategy, published in March of this year, describes some of the many ways in which we are working across government and with industry and the charity sector to address the digital divide.
Responsibility for digital inclusion in Scotland is devolved, but the UK Government also funds Good Things Foundation to deliver the Future Digital Inclusion Programme. Good Things Foundation oversees the network of more than 5,000 UK Online Centres, including in Glasgow East.