{"id":8207,"date":"2014-12-01T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8207"},"modified":"2014-12-01T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:16:18","slug":"government-reviews-state-aid-approach-broadband-delivery-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/government-reviews-state-aid-approach-broadband-delivery-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Reviews State Aid Approach for Broadband Delivery UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-culture-media-sport\" target=\"_blank\">Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport<\/a> (DCMS) has appointed economic analysts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxera.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oxera<\/a> to conduct an independent evaluation of how state aid (public funding) is being used in the national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) scheme, which currently aims to make fixed line superfast broadband (24Mbps+) speeds available to 95% of the population by 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But critics of the scheme, especially those who may be angry at how most of the public investment (around \u00a31.7bn so far) has gone towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, probably shouldn&#8217;t get their hopes up because the Government aren&#8217;t likely to stab themselves in the back and have already said that the review &#8220;<em>will be used to support the re-notification of the current scheme for extended period State aid clearance when it expires on 30 June 2015<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>DCMS Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The evaluation will be used to verify whether the NBS has been to date implemented in full compliance with the Decision and the Broadband Guidelines; and to understand whether its National Broadband Scheme has met its primary objectives and assess the impact of the scheme on markets and competition, in line with the State aid Evaluation Methodology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Should stakeholders wish to make representations about either of these two aspects to implementation they can do so by contacting Christopher Davis. 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