Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:44 pm on 20 June 2018.
Yes, well, there are several different strands to that. So, in the superfast intervention area, so outside the central conurbations, if you bear in mind that the whole of the superfast programme is a market intervention, we can only go where the market doesn't go. So, assuming you're in a superfast intervention area, and that's happening, then you'll be part of the next procurement or the discussion that we're having with BT about the use of the gain share, or you could be part of a community-based solution that might act for you. Unfortunately, if you're outside of the intervention area and you're in the commercial roll-out area, then you're at the vagaries of the commercial operators, and we've put a lot of pressure on them in terms of influence, but I have no direct ability to intervene in one of the areas that isn't.
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar enough with the area you're talking about to know if it's in or out of the intervention area. Assuming it's in the superfast area, so it's outside of central Cardiff—I think that's what you were saying—then either we can help you to get together a community bespoke solution for that—and I'm happy for one of my officials to come and see if we can help you with that; I'm off down to Paul Davies's constituency tomorrow, I think it is, actually, to meet with a number of people, so I'm happy to facilitate that for you—or it'll be in one of the next-stage roll-out programmes, which is designed to assist with either lack of capacity in a cabinet or lack of connectivity with a cabinet. But I'd welcome a conversation with you about a specific community.