Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Mar 2021
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
"I have given the Chancellor an enormous amount of praise during this crisis and for this Budget, but I offer him a few words of caution. He and I have crossed swords only once, and that was three years ago, when he was the Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities …..."Ian Liddell-Grainger - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Shared Rural Network
"First, until we change the rules in national parks, we are not going to achieve universal coverage. Secondly, Connecting Devon and Somerset has been a disaster. Will the Secretary of State please change what that project is doing? Until we do, the good burghers of Somerset and Devon are not …..."Ian Liddell-Grainger - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Superfast Broadband Delivery: Somerset
"My hon. Friend is making a strong point and is representing his constituents extremely well. I am old enough to remember, because I was here before this started with CDS, that we were originally promised a level, as he quite rightly said, and it has not appeared. BT, slightly duplicitously, …..."Ian Liddell-Grainger - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Superfast Broadband Delivery: Somerset
"I remind my hon. Friend that places such as Exmoor and the more remote parts of Somerset do not have that choice. Gigaclear’s cheapest package, for instance, is £35, with an activation fee of £120. Sometimes we have no choice. I know my hon. Friend is fully aware of that, …..."Ian Liddell-Grainger - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 3rd December 2015
Asked by:
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative - Bridgwater and West Somerset)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many mobile telephone masts are due to be erected in the UK by March 2016.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This Government has committed to ensuring that 90 per cent of the UK landmass will have voice and SMS coverage by 2017.14 telephone masts have been completed and are providing mobile coverage in areas of Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk and Northern Ireland. Over 50 other potential mast sites are currentlybeing progressed by our supplier with the aim of delivering as many of these as possible by the project end date of 31 March 2016.
Written Question
Thursday 3rd December 2015
Asked by:
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative - Bridgwater and West Somerset)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many telephone masts have been erected under the Government's mobile infrastructure project.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This Government has committed to ensuring that 90 per cent of the UK landmass will have voice and SMS coverage by 2017.14 telephone masts have been completed and are providing mobile coverage in areas of Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk and Northern Ireland. Over 50 other potential mast sites are currentlybeing progressed by our supplier with the aim of delivering as many of these as possible by the project end date of 31 March 2016.