Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment the Government has made of the economic effect of slow internet connection in rural communities.
The Department released The UK Broadband Impact Study in 2013 which made an assessment of the impacts of faster broadband including the economic impacts. The study can be accessed on the Department’s website (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-broadband-impact-study--2).
The Department will be producing a new impact study in 2018.