Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:29, 28 February 2018

Yes, I think there are some communications issues still. Some of those are very complicated now because they are to do with the availability of connections via particular internet service providers, and we have been working with a number of Assembly Members—you included—to make sure that people are getting the right information about the question to ask. Because we have had some examples of people attempting to buy the services through an internet service provider that doesn't provide, for example, fibre-to-the-premises-type services, and the individual being told that the service isn't available, rather than that the particular provider doesn't provide it. So, we've got some complex communications issues going on at the moment. We have got a number of pieces of information on the website to assist with that. In terms of the successor programmes, we're very pleased that we're as near as we can be to looking at what can be done about the stranded assets programme, which I know the Member is very familiar with as well. I'm hoping to have a definitive list of the additional premises that were connected as a result of our extension, so that we could get the ones that have been completed to a very great extent done very shortly. And we think it's actually more than we originally planned, which is good news, but it's what's holding up the information. And in terms of the bespoke programme, we're going to be rolling that out as we speak to individual communities, and they will have a bespoke solution, which they will very much be in control of.