{"id":951,"date":"2015-10-03T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:29:20","slug":"good-news-in-latest-broadband-expansion-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Good News in Latest Broadband Expansion Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broadband-oct-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broadband-oct-15.png\" alt=\"broadband oct 15\" width=\"362\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broadband-oct-15.png 530w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/broadband-oct-15-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 85vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael welcomed figures\u00a0released this week\u00a0showing that tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Sevenoaks and Swanley are now able to benefit from superfast broadband coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The Government and local authorities are investing \u00a31.7 billion to bring superfast broadband to as many people as possible across the UK.\u00a0 The Kent element of the national programme has been allocated over \u00a317 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the Sevenoaks constituency, this will ensure that 14,726 premises will benefit from superfast coverage by June 2017, of which 11,724 have now received coverage.\u00a0 This is in addition to the 23,584 premises that have received it under the commercial programme.<\/p>\n<p>In the three months to June specifically, 1,769 premises across the constituency have gained coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: &#8220;I welcome that the Government\u2019s commitment to superfast broadband expansion is continuing to benefit people across my constituency.\u00a0 It is crucial to keeping our local economy growing and will make life easier, cheaper and faster.\u00a0 I will continue to advocate further expansion over the coming years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael welcomed figures\u00a0released this week\u00a0showing that tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Sevenoaks and Swanley are now able to benefit from superfast broadband coverage. The Government and local authorities are investing \u00a31.7 billion to bring superfast broadband to as many people as possible across the UK.\u00a0 The Kent element of the national programme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good News in Latest Broadband Expansion Figures&#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":[8,46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}