Research Briefing
A paperless NHS: electronic health records
House of Commons Library briefing for Westminster Hall debate on "Use of digital records in the NHS".
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Debate Pack
Debate pack: BT broadband provision for local businesses
This page has been prepared ahead of the debate in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 10 March at 1.30pm on BT broadband provision for local businesses. The Member in charge is Helen Goodman. It includes a brief summary and some useful links for further reading. The House of Commons Library prepares a briefing in hard copy and/or online for most non-legislative debates in the Chamber and Westminster Hall other than half-hour debates. Debate Packs are produced quickly after the announcement of parliamentary business. They are intended to provide a summary or overview of the issue being debated and identify relevant briefings and useful documents, including press and parliamentary material. More detailed briefing can be prepared for Members on request to the Library.
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Debate Pack
BT service standards
This pack has been produced ahead of the debate on BT service standards to be held in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 9 March at 9.30am. The Member in charge is Caroline Nokes.
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Research Briefing
Driving up cybersecurity standards: Is TalkTalk just the latest in a litany of data breaches?
The TalkTalk cyberattack in the last week is just the latest in a litany of data breaches at large and small companies alike. This is the third hack on TalkTalk in 2015 alone and a survey of UK companies in 2015 found that in the past year 74% of small businesses and 90% of large
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Research Briefing
Superfast Broadband roll-out: Reaching the final 5% ‘hardest to reach properties’
Last August, I blogged highlighting that the Government’s superfast broadband programme had extended fibre broadband to 2 million premises. This August, the Government has trumpeted the fact that it has now extended fibre to a further million premises, taking the total to 3 million since 2010. MPs will debate this and other issues related to
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Debate Pack
Debate Pack: Superfast Broadband Rollout
This debate pack has been compiled ahead of the debate on Superfast Broadband Rollout to be held on Monday 12 October 2015 at 3pm in the Commons Chamber. This is a Backbench Business Committee debate. Debate packs are produced quickly after the announcement of parliamentary business. They are intended to provide a summary or overview of the issue being debated and identify relevant briefings and useful documents, including press and parliamentary material. More detailed briefing can be prepared for MPs on request to the Library.
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Research Briefing
Mind the gap: The digital divide and digital inclusion
Internet use is transforming almost every aspect of our public, private and work life. More than three quarters of the UK population use the internet daily, up from just 35% of people in 2006. Two thirds of people now own a smartphone, using it for nearly two hours every day to browse the internet, access
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Research Briefing
The UK 4G spectrum auction and mobile coverage
Ofcom auctioned radio spectrum needed for 4G mobile devices in 2013, raising £2.34 billion (less than Treasury forecasts). This briefing summarises the details of the auction, potential interference with digital television and future plans for the 700 MHz lot of spectrum.
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Debate Pack
Superfast Broadband Rollout: WH Debate 24 June 2015
This debate pack has been prepared for the Westminster Hall debate on Superfast broadband rollout on Wednesday 24 June at 2.30pm. It sets out the current situation with regard to broadband access and coverage and provides an overview of the Government’s broadband policy for the UK. It focuses on the delivery of broadband targets and funding in England as the devolved administrations have their own delivery programmes. In addition, appendices found at the bottom of this page provide detailed data on broadband speeds and superfast availability by region and parliamentary constituency, including maps.
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Research Briefing
Regulating the web, the Open Internet and Net Neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, earlier this year warned that net neutrality—“a key element of the openness that underpins the Web and the broader Internet”—is under threat. And while internet activists cheered the announcement in February this year that the US telecommunications regulator had approved a plan to govern the internet
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Research Briefing
Key Issues for the 2015 Parliament
This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.
Total results (page 9 of 11)