Hannah Bardell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hannah Bardell on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the proposed Universal Service Obligation for broadband will apply in Scotland.

Matt Hancock

Telecoms, including the Broadband Univeral Service Obligation (USO) is a reserved matter and applies throughout the UK. We have regular discussions with the Scottish Government on a wide range of issues, and I am grateful for their responses to the Government’s USO consultation and more recently to Ofcom’s Call for Inputs on the design of the USO.