Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 68290

Broadband: Infrastructure

Tabled: 15 July 2025

Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal Democrat — Mid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to (a) require broadband providers to share infrastructure and (b) ensure that (i) lamp posts and (ii) other publicly-owned infrastructure are access

Answer

Chris Bryant

Duties and obligations relating to telecommunications installations are included in the Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003, which include requirements to share apparatus where practicable. This is supported by th...

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