<p>Digital Communications Infrastructure</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 7 March 2017.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 1:58, 7 March 2017

Can I congratulate the Welsh Government on progress in rolling out superfast broadband? As we move to address the final gaps in that and to improve on mobile connectivity, it’s clear that the topography of Wales, beautiful as it is, poses particular challenges to digital connectivity and that we may need greater proportionate access to infrastructure than other parts of the UK to reach the same level of coverage finally. I look forward to the Welsh Government’s mobile plan and I hope it contains steps to press operators to share infrastructure. But, in addition, will the First Minister confirm that the Welsh Government will look at how publicly owned land can be used, where appropriate, to locate digital infrastructure—and as we look post Brexit at how we use public funds to support land management, that we consider how future programmes can be used to incentivise the location of digital infrastructure in rural and semi-rural areas where they can make a difference to connectivity Wales-wide?