Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to require Openreach to publish firm delivery dates for Full Fibre and reasons for delays where work has already begun.

Openreach and other broadband network suppliers are asked to report on their delivery plans to Building Digital UK (BDUK) via the broadband Open Market Reviews which currently take place three times per year. Openreach always provides a response to these reviews. The outcomes are published by BDUK in tabular format at Open Market Review (OMR) determinations and BDUK plans - GOV.UK.

The data is also available, along with information on planned delivery through Project Gigabit, via the government's broadband address checker at www.gov.uk/check-your-gigabit-broadband-availability.

All Project Gigabit contracts include measures and obligations regarding time and budget against which suppliers’ performance is monitored. However, broadband suppliers including Openreach are not required to publish reasons for any delays to their own commercial roll-outs.