Superfast Broadband
Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport
10:30 am
Stephen Timms (East Ham, Labour)
The cumbersome and expensive Broadband Delivery UK process appears almost to have eliminated competition, which ought to have had a very important role in it. Ministers made a big strategic error in supporting superfast broadband at county level, rather than regionally. Does the Minister recognise that it will be a scandal if the outcome of the process is that, in the end, all the money is just handed over to BT?