Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 87215

Broadband: Fees and Charges

Tabled: 3 November 2025

Answered: 11 November 2025

Named Day

Question

Sir Desmond Swayne

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make it her policy to reduce the Passive Infrastructure Access charges to broadband providers installing their own cabling parallel to existing Openreach broadband infrastru

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

As the independent regulator for telecommunications, Ofcom is responsible for making regulatory decisions in the fixed telecoms sector, including on the Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) product. PIA rental charges are set by Ofcom and based on the tot...

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