Plans to give all areas of the UK access to superfast broadband by 2015 will bring benefits to public services, particularly in health and education. The greatest benefits will be in the more rural and remote areas.

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The costs to businesses and essential services for address details will be cut by merging the two different national address lists maintained by councils and Ordnance Survey.

A single ‘address book’ for England and Wales is to be created and made free to the emergency services for the first time. An agreement has been reached to set up a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group to create a new single source of address data.

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