Broadband Provision in Swansea East

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 2:46 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:46, 28 February 2018

Indeed, and his officials attend my ministerial data and digital group, which as I said, met only this morning. One of the topics of conversation was that we're putting in place a new transport data arrangement, as part of the way the officials work, to consider how we might best improve some of the connectivity issues. So, you will know that Arriva Trains Wales has just put Wi-Fi on all of its rolling stock and the rolling stock will transfer when the franchise happens. But Great Western—we've been unable to secure that, although there's a conversation going on. We are, however, looking to see whether an agreement with Network Rail might be productive in terms of using some of the network itself as infrastructure, and, indeed, we're also looking at noding the roads and so on in order to improve some of it. So, I have a very intensive and ongoing conversation with the Cabinet Secretary and his officials about how we can best use the infrastructure that's available to us in order to increase exactly that sort of provision.