Political Monitor 07/09/2018

Broadband Lane Rental Guidance published The Department for Transport (DfT) have published guidance to local highway authorities on how to design and implement lane rental schemes including a new calculator for assessing the costs and benefits of schemes. This follows...

Political Monitor 31/08/2018

Broadband DCMS announces third round of LFFN funding DCMS have announced that local authorities will be being encouraged to bid for a share of £95 million being made available by the Government to help rollout full fibre connectivity across the UK. Successful projects...

Political Monitor 10/08/2018

Broadband Labour consultation on Digital Infrastructure Labour Shadow Digital Minister, Liam Byrne MP, has published a paper on digital infrastructure for consultation citing access to broadband as a “critical national infrastructure priority”. To keep up with...

Political Monitor 26/07/2018

ISPA Cyber Security Survey ISPA is running a survey for members on cyber security and we would be grateful if you could take 10 minutes or so to fill out the survey, which can be found here. The aim of the survey is to get an industry wide perspective on cyber...

Political Monitor 20/07/2018

ISPA Cyber Security Survey ISPA is running a survey for members on cyber security and we would be grateful if you could take 10 minutes or so to fill out the survey, which can be found here. The aim of the survey is to get an industry wide perspective on cyber...

Political Monitor 13/07/2018

Government Update Jeremy Wright replaces Hancock as Digital Secretary The Cabinet reshuffle on Monday saw Matt Hancock MP move the Department of Heath and Social Care with Jeremy Wright QC MP moving to take over his brief as DCMS Secretary. Margot James MP remains in...