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Thursday 1st May 2014

Asked by: Alun Cairns (Conservative - Vale of Glamorgan)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to improve broadband coverage in rural areas.

Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot

Phase one of the superfast roll-out programme is making good progress with all 44 projects in delivery.

Two thirds of projects (29 out of 44) have live superfast cabinets making superfast broadband available to thousands of homes and businesses across the country.

We are now investing the additional £250 million to take coverage of superfast broadband to 95% of UK premises