Access to Broadband in South Wales West

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:58, 14 November 2018

The scheme is available in Wales, but it crosses across our own ultrafast voucher scheme. So, a large number of Welsh businesses have gone through the ultrafast voucher scheme, which is in the same space but a little bit different, and, actually, officials at the moment are working very hard to see if we can make the two schemes marry together. Ours is more generous, but what we're looking to do is to see if we can get the UK Government voucher scheme to cover off some part of it and then for us to top up the Welsh businesses so that, actually, they have a more generous offer. So, what's happening there is that it's crossing across an existing scheme that we had that businesses are also able to access. We are in the process of trying to make that a simplified set of schemes. It has been quite difficult to get details about longevity, and so on, out of the UK Government so that we can do that piece of work effectively.