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Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that superfast broadband is available in remote areas of the UK.
This question was answered on 1st May 2014
A new £10 million competitive fund opened on 21 March to market test innovative solutions to deliver superfast broadband services to the most difficult to reach remaining areas of the UK.
The pilot projects will explore how to reach these areas; and we'll use learning from the pilots to inform future government investment decisions