Part 8: Other Enterprise-Related Provisions Industrial Development Section 35: Grants etc towards electronic communications services and networks
This section inserts a new section 13A into the Industrial Development Act 1982 to confer on the Secretary of State the power to make grants or loans towards the costs of improving electronic communication facilities (electronic communications networks and services, and associated facilities) in any area of the United Kingdom. These changes are designed to help the Secretary of State support the roll out of telecommunications and broadband across the United Kingdom.
	The intention is that the new power to make grants or loans towards the costs of improving electronic communications networks and services in an area of the United Kingdom should only be available to Ministers of the UK Government.