We will be working with BT as part of this process—they’re going to be bidding for it like anybody else, I’m sure—about the best way to enable some extra capacity, and we continue to have the difficulty of people at the end of a long copper wire on an FTTC connection, and we’ll need to look carefully at how we can enable those to get broadband connections and come up with a solution that suits most of those communities to the best value of the public purse.

The ‘have access to’ commitment is exactly that. We continue to have a voucher scheme that allows people to access broadband. It doesn’t say it will be free and it doesn’t say that it will be fibre, because that is not deliverable. So, for some premises, ‘have access to’ means that we will share the cost of it with them, but every premises in Wales is eligible for the voucher scheme if they can’t get the fibre broadband network out to them, and that’s our definition of ‘have access to’. We can argue the semantics of it, and I probably think it could have been more felicitously worded, but that’s what that commitment meant, and it’s still what it means now.

We’re never going to get to 100 per cent of every single premises in Wales having fibre-optic broadband. It just is not economic for that. But what we are going to do is ensure that all of those who want it can access it through one means or another.