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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Shared Rural Network

"East Lothian has been let down by Governments north and south of the border, who have ended the LEADER programme, as well as the Community Broadband Scotland and R100 funding. If it were not for East Lothian Council and local companies such as Lothian Broadband that have found imaginative solutions …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jul 2019
Problem Gambling

"I invite the Secretary of State to consider a mandatory levy from a slightly different point of view. In the statement, he rightly said that the five companies represent half the British commercial gambling industry. Would it not be fairer, under a mandatory levy, to spread that contribution across the …..."
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Written Question
Television Licences: Enforcement
Tuesday 7th May 2019

Asked by: Martin Whitfield (Labour - East Lothian)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that cable and satellite TV companies to share their subscription information with TV Licensing to improve the investigation and enforcement process as set out in section 5 of the TV licence free enforcement review.

Answered by Margot James

The government expects the BBC to collect the licence fee in an efficient and proportionate way to reduce costs and evasion. We continue to explore the feasibility of subscription data sharing.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Feb 2019
Leaving the EU: Mobile Roaming Charges

"Given the disaster of no deal and the apparent inability of this Government to ensure that our holidaying constituents have the same benefits as they do at the moment, does the Secretary of State agree with Alex Neill, the director of home services at Which?, that companies must be “absolutely …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Aberdeenshire is currently the only area in Scotland that has been chosen for the Department’s pilot scheme to roll out 1 gigabit per second connections. Will the Minister consider extending that to East Lothian, which more accurately reflects the roll-out problems across both Scotland and the United Kingdom?..."
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Written Question
Broadband
Monday 5th March 2018

Asked by: Martin Whitfield (Labour - East Lothian)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what date he expects Wave 3 of the Local Full Fibre Network Challenge Fund to open for applications.

Answered by Margot James

Wave 2 of the Challenge Fund closed to applications on 26th January 2018. We expect to notify applicants about the successful applications in March 2018 and we anticipate that the next wave of the Challenge Fund will open to applications in the summer of 2018.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"11. What steps his Department is taking to improve digital infrastructure. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Given the Government’s commitment to deal directly with local authorities in Scotland in the near future on digital infrastructure, would the Minister agree to meet me, the local authority and, more importantly, disruptive local providers who may be able to give answers to some of the problems that we face?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Dr Elsie Inglis and Women’s Contribution to World War One

"It is, as always, a great honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, and to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard). I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South (Ian Murray) on securing this timely and important debate.

Dr Elsie …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Dr Elsie Inglis and Women’s Contribution to World War One

"I am grateful for that intervention. Bessie’s parents retired to Dunbar, which was then part of the constituency of Berwickshire but is now part of East Lothian. Bessie embarked on a nursing career that took her not only all over Scotland, but on two major overseas adventures. She trained in …..."
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