Written Question
Thursday 26th May 2022
Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which projects have received funds from Project Gigabit.
Answered by Julia Lopez
- Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
To date, Project Gigabit funding has been contracted for the following projects:
Gigahubs Programme: Department for Education, National Health Service (Scotland), Highlands Council, Welsh Government, Oxfordshire County Council, Dorset Council, Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Full Fibre Northern Ireland.
In addition, almost 1,500 projects have received funding through the Project Gigabit voucher scheme.
Written Question
Thursday 26th May 2022
Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the £5 billion Project Gigabit funds have been spent as of 19 May 2022.
Answered by Julia Lopez
- Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
UK coverage of gigabit broadband has boomed from 6 per cent to more than 68 per cent in the last three years. The Department has upgraded 600,000 hard-to-reach premises to gigabit and we remain on track to hit our target of 85 per cent gigabit coverage by 2025.
To date, we have spent over £61 million to provide reliable, lightning-fast connections to hard-to-reach premises across the UK via Project Gigabit. A further £35 million is already contracted to be spent and over £500 million of funding is now out to procurement.
Written Question
Tuesday 24th May 2022
Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of adding the Flow Country to prospective list held by the Government for consideration for inscription onto the UNESCO World Heritage Site List.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
- Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
I am pleased to confirm the Flow Country was added to the UK’s Tentative List in 2012. This is the list of prospective sites to go forward for the World Heritage Committee’s consideration for inscribing new sites on the World Heritage List.
We expect the Committee to make a decision on whether to add the Flow Country to the World Heritage List at their meeting in 2024. In the meantime, the Flow Country will remain on the UK’s Tentative List through the current review exercise to select new prospective sites.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Channel 4 Privatisation
"Shall we just remind ourselves of what things were like in the past? When I was growing up, there was an awful lot of pretty mediocre stuff on the box from across the pond, such as “The Lucy Show”, “Lost in Space” or “Batman”. As the hon. Member for Rhondda …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Football Governance
"I am a Scot and a highlander, so those in the Chamber will not be surprised to learn that I support Ross County. Ross County very nearly won a Scottish cup final but we were pipped to the post by Dundee United. It was 15 May 2010 and I remain …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Football Governance
"That is quite enough from the hon. Gentleman seated behind me. I accept what the Minister is saying about the Government’s good intention on this front, but I seek reassurance that the clubs in the lower divisions are being consulted to the maximum point they can be, because they are …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Apr 2022
Online Safety Bill
"Obviously I, and my party, support the thrust of the Bill. The Government have been talking about this since 2018, so clearly time is of the essence.
Members have referred repeatedly to the slight vagueness of the definitions currently in the Bill—words such as “harms”, for instance—so I wanted to …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Gambling-related Harm
"The hon. Member is making the most impassioned contribution. I hope that I will not interrupt the stream of useful statistics that support her argument, but I will just give an example of—I had better be careful in my description—a senior medical person in the highlands who was well-off and …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"6. What steps she is taking to strengthen and promote public service broadcasting. ..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"I want to put on the record my thanks for a useful meeting with the Minister this week about social tariffs for mobile devices. Channel 4 is close to my heart, as it is to those of many hon. Members. Will she assure me that any future owner of Channel …..."Jamie Stone - View Speech
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