{"id":1237,"date":"2016-05-26T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T09:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:56:54","slug":"michael-welcomes-queens-speech-broadband-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Michael Welcomes Queen&#8217;s Speech Broadband Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1185\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1185 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053.jpg\" alt=\"Biz Show_22-4-16_053\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2662\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with representatives from Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce at the recent Sevenoaks Business Show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael has welcomed the announcement that the Government will introduce a new legal right to a fast broadband connection.<\/p>\n<p>In the Queen\u2019s Speech, Her Majesty stated: \u2018Measures will be brought forward to create the right for every household to access high speed broadband.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The news is a boost to Michael&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing campaign to secure improvements to broadband for homes and businesses throughout his constituency. Michael has already met representatives from BT and is continuing to press for assurances about the progress of the superfast rollout programme.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: &#8220;I am delighted by this new commitment.\u00a0 Sevenoaks needs better broadband, now and for years to come.\u00a0 This new universal obligation will mean that no home or business is left behind.\u00a0 I will continue to fight for my constituents to ensure it is implemented as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has welcomed the announcement that the Government will introduce a new legal right to a fast broadband connection. In the Queen\u2019s Speech, Her Majesty stated: \u2018Measures will be brought forward to create the right for every household to access high speed broadband.\u2019 The news is a boost to Michael&#8217;s\u00a0ongoing campaign to secure improvements to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Welcomes Queen&#8217;s Speech Broadband Commitment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[465,8,30,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}