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Written Question
Project Gigabit: Rural Areas
Monday 14th October 2024

Asked by: Sarah Dyke (Liberal Democrat - Glastonbury and Somerton)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much and what proportion of the Project Gigabit fund has been allocated to rural areas.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The latest published data shows that between April 2022 and March 2023, 90% of premises benefiting from publicly-subsidised broadband rollout, including Project Gigabit, were rural.

Almost £2 billion of contracts have been signed to connect over a million more premises with gigabit-capable broadband. These are premises that would otherwise not be reached by suppliers’ commercial rollout, and fall predominantly in rural areas.