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Broadband: Rural Areas

Asked by Sam CarlingLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 16 January 2025UIN 23096

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role rural digital connectivity will have in the industrial strategy.

Answered by Sarah Jones

As set out in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, access to fast, secure, and reliable digital connectivity is essential to enabling economic growth and to reap the transformational productivity benefits of digitalisation and the adoption of AI. Improvements in infrastructure, including digital infrastructure, will be foundational to success across our growth-driving sectors and to addressing place-specific constraints to growth across the country.

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