Question reference: S5W-36112
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34146 by Paul Wheelhouse on 19 January 2021, what plans it has to improve support for Community Fibre Partnerships in areas that have been excluded from the R100 programme or might have to wait a number of years to benefit from programme.
Answer
The Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme main voucher – worth up to £5,000 – has been specifically designed to allow vouchers in a community to be combined to extend available funding, ensuring co-ordinated, comprehensive areas of superfast coverage where possible. Community Fibre Partnerships are a commercial offering from Openreach and, as a registered supplier, SBVS vouchers can be used by communities to help secure a Community Fibre Partnership solution.