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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what average broadband speeds were in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the North West in each year since 2010.

Historic broadband speeds were published by Ofcom with their Infrastructure Report and Connected Nation's report and reanalysed by the House of Commons library. Independent figures have also been estimated by Thinkbroadband and are available from their website (http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/england).