Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Scottish Government has ever requested additional funding from them to assist with the delivery of the Reaching 100% programme.

Answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Reaching 100% (R100) programme is funded primarily by the Scottish Government.

In the financial year 2016/2017, the UK Government provided £21 million from the earlier Superfast Broadband Programme to the Scottish Government to support superfast broadband coverage in Scotland. The Scottish Government used this funding to support the R100 procurements.

Following the inception of Project Gigabit in 2021, the UK Government has subsequently provided a further £31 million to support extensions in coverage and to enable delivery of gigabit-capable coverage (>1000Mbps) in place of superfast speeds (>=30Mbps).

This funding has supported the rollout of high-speed broadband to tens of thousands of premises across Scotland.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 30 September (HL10502), what assessment they have made of the risk of people who receive a seasonal worker visa overstaying, and what steps they are taking to prevent overstaying on those visas.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Seasonal Worker route is an operator led immigration route with six Scheme Operators responsible for selecting suitable workers from overseas. UK Visas and Immigration closely monitor the performance of the Scheme Operators to ensure high standards of returns are maintained.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 30 September (HL10502), why they do not publish the number of individuals granted seasonal worker visas in each of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; and whether they plan to publish that disaggregated data.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account several factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 30 September (HL10502), why they do not publish data on the number of individuals who overstay their seasonal worker visa, and whether they plan to publish such data.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account several factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and availability of data.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for British citizenship from UK-based foreign nationals (1) have been processed, and (2) are yet to be processed, as of 30 September.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website.

Information on the location of customers who have applied for citizenship is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

Data on the number of citizenship applications decided each quarter can be found here: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK

The number of outstanding citizenship applications each quarter can be found here: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK

Found: Letter dated 23/09/2025 from Lord Katz to Lord Cameron of Lochiel regarding the language in Section 72