Asked by: Peter Heaton-Jones (Conservative - North Devon)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take in further extending the availability of superfast broadband in North Devon constituency.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Superfast broadband coverage is available to over 80% of UK premises and the Government remains committed to providing 95% coverage to homes and businesses by December 2017.
Commercial broadband delivery is expected to cover 13,862 premises in the North Devon constituency. By the end of the Connecting Devon and Somerset project, coverage is expected to have increased to 39,744 premises.
This data is included in the table in the House of Commons Library: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?house=1&search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&itemId=122028#toggle-163
Asked by: Peter Heaton-Jones (Conservative - North Devon)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress he has made on ensuring that the superfast broadband rollout programme reaches the most rural areas of the UK.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
More than 2.5 million additional homes and businesses now have access to superfast broadband as a result of the Government’s intervention and 40,000 more are gaining access every week.