Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill

Unfortunately, my constituency has one of the slowest broadband speeds in the UK. In one area in ...

I certainly will. As I am sure the hon. Gentleman is aware, we are moving forward at an absolutel...

The Secretary of State has just talked about the ability to activate fast broadband in five diffe...

We are. The roll out of superfast broadband and gigabit broadband, in respect of which we have co...

Many of my constituents in Northolt are not able to access faster broadband through a fibre conne...

The hon. Member’s question is quite detailed, right down to street names, so I will take it away ...

My right hon. Friend is making an important point about ensuring that we have the infrastructure ...

Community engagement and engagement with individual households is vital. People need to know that...

In a similar vein to the hon. Member for Burnley (Antony Higginbotham), I have received a number ...

I am coming to the first point raised by the hon. Member. On his second point, which was about re...

I strongly welcome massive private-led investment in proper broadband, which is what we all need....

An interesting point. I will certainly take that back to BDUK, Openreach and others. We need to e...

In my constituency of St Albans there is the Highfield Park Trust, run by a group of volunteers. ...

In 2017, the prices were too high and they affected the overall roll-out. The new pricing regime ...

The Secretary of State highlighted that the prices were once too high. Now we have had multiple c...

We have listened to landowners. We have not introduced the legislation without involving them in ...

I do not think there could be a better birthday present than being in the Chamber today and liste...

May I extend those congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff ...

It is a very serious Bill—

It is a very serious Bill, yes—

It is just as well I am in a generous mood today, is it not?

It is just as well you are in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker!

We have here another infrastruc...

The hon. Lady is no Stalinist. Given that the underlying principle of part 2 of the Bill is the S...

I must object to that suggestion that I am a Stalinist. I am, however, someone who believes that ...

No Stalinist!

Oh, no Stalinist. I am someone who believes that there should be a fair valuation, and a fair and...

I was very interested in the hon. Lady’s comment about virtual reality. Does she think we need to...

I do. I share the right hon. Gentleman’s concern about the metaverse; we are constantly considera...

The hon. Member for St Albans (Daisy Cooper) intimated that people would want to take their land ...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that the Bill and the previous code mean that those ...

I am listening to the hon. Lady with interest and I think that security is an issue on which we c...

I am coming to the end of my speech, but there are a number of issues that could have been includ...

I have been asked to vote for some pretty awful stuff over the past couple of years, but this has...

Sports clubs, parish halls, village halls and the like have seen a real depreciation in their inc...

Of course, and these are the very people—the hearts of our community—who are now identified as th...

In 2016, the need for regulation on product security became undeniable when huge swathes of the i...

It is a pleasure to speak in another debate on improving the nation’s connectivity. My hon. Frien...

Does my hon. Friend support making the alternative dispute resolution procedure mandatory?

My right hon. Friend makes a noble point, to which I will allow our hon. Friend the Minister to r...

I start by declaring my interests. Much of my previous career was spent in the cyber-security ind...

As the shadow spokesperson, the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell), said, this is a...

rose—

I will let my right hon. Friend intervene in a minute. He talked about the benefit to landowners....

I am only interested in the lobbying of my constituents who have been so harshly affected. We hav...

My right hon. Friend does not make a wholly unreasonable point, but ultimately that money is goin...

Does my hon. Friend accept that the reverse seems to be happening and that the roll-out seems to ...

Ultimately, I think reducing it in the predictable and long-announced way is what will speed up t...

My hon. Friend is being characteristically generous with his time. We had this sort of debate abo...

Ultimately, I simply say, from a Conservative standpoint, that I would like regulation to be as l...

I applaud the Government for the energy they are putting into trying to improve our connectivity....

I thank my hon. Friend for so clearly summing up the process of what the Secretary of State calle...

I only wish I was as beautifully dramatic and exciting as my right hon. Friend when I spoke. I am...

I am conscious that I am the last Back-Bench speaker in the debate, and I see a number of hon. Me...

It is a pleasure to close this Second Reading debate. The first job of any Government is to keep ...

The point is that the companies providing the devices will stop giving out security updates anywa...

I take the hon. Lady’s point, but not everyone can afford simply to keep on replacing their techn...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not, no, because the hon. Lady does not like the answer—that is the problem, is it not?