Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 85313

Broadband: Scotland

Tabled: 27 October 2025

Answered: 4 November 2025

Question

Stephen Flynn

Scottish National Party — Aberdeen South

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure tenants in (a) flats and (b) tenements in Scotland are included in the full fibre rollout; and whether she plans to publish a consultation

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement on 21 July we will consult on policy measures later in the autumn to create a new right for leaseholders in England and Wales to request a gigabit broadband connection and a duty for freeholders to not unrea...

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