One of the problems about writing my weekly update during the conference season is there is so much political news! And with the key event this week – the Prime Minister’s speech – finishing after the Shuttle goes to press, I can only comment next week.
Mark has received a response from Openreach in respect of the areas within DY13 which are currently planned for installation of telegraph poles by a third party. Openreach response is as follows:
A couple of weeks ago, I met with a group from Friends of the Earth. Committed to our environment, they struck me as sensible and driven. They were at the front of my mind when, last week, Rishi Sunak rowed back on climate change ambitions.
Further to the public meeting, Mark stated that he would write to the Secretary of State for Levelling UP, Housing and Communities, The Rt Hon. Michael Gove, to see if there was any financial support/grants for communities where ducting was not available as copper wire was buried without.
Back in 1964, my race-driver godfather took an AC Cobra for a test run to see how it would fair at Le Mans. He got it up to 185 MPH on, astonishingly, the M1 motorway. It was in the small hours of the morning, and no one was around, but amazingly, it was not illegal.
My office is currently awaiting a full response to their roll out of Full Fibre to the property in respect of how they intend to deliver to the areas which do not have full ducting.
Following Mark's Westminster Hall debate earlier this year on the Misuse of Nitrous Oxide, commonly known as Laughing Gas, Mark welcomes Parliament's decision to criminalise this dangerous substance.
Parliament returned this week, after the summer recess, to the latest argument doing the rounds. Ironically, as we go ‘back to school’, it is around 150 real schools across a national schools estate of some 22,500 schools that will not be going back.
