Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:03 pm on 13 June 2017.
Yes, and I'm very grateful to John Griffiths for raising the detail that he has raised with me over this. It's very frustrating. My information at the moment is that all of the services that AB were providing have now been restored, albeit with temporary fixes, and that the administrators have sent out information packs to prospective purchasers and are obviously hopeful that they'll be able to sell the company as a going concern onwards. But I don't have any more information than that.
Unfortunately, of course, you're not in the intervention area, so you’re reliant on the commercial roll-out, and that's very—. I mean, the irony of this is my whole constituency isn't in the intervention area, and I have people with no broadband services, but, where a commercial operator has said that they are going to provide service, then we can't go there because that would breach the state aid intervention rules. So, I can't do very much more than sympathise with the difficulty. I'm happy to work with the Member in talking to BT about their commercial roll-out and whether we can help with that, but I have no actual intervention power over it. If you’ve got any more information about the services provided by AB Internet, or indeed any other Member who's got AB Internet coverage in their patch—there are a number of others—if you could let me know, then at least we can ensure that there’s a temporary fix in place for some of those people.