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Debate between Helen Grant and David Heath
Thursday 30th January 2014

(10 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Grant
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They do work, and they have been used very successfully in relation to both Southwark and Barking and Dagenham. I remind the hon. Gentleman that Newham council also used licensing conditions to control unacceptable activities in betting shops.

David Heath Portrait Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome) (LD)
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In Somerset, we now know which areas will not benefit from the roll-out of high-speed broadband. Some of them have been in the news over the past couple of days. When the Secretary of State distributes the funds that she has available for the last 10% of the population in rural areas, will she please not do so on the basis of an elaborate bidding system, and will she please not ask for match funding from rural areas, where it will simply never happen?