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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he has taken to facilitate access to superfast broadband for people who live in (a) Cornwall and (b) North Cornwall constituency; and whether he has held discussions with superfast broadband providers on delivering that service.

The Government has provided over £5.9m for the delivery of superfast broadband in Cornwall. According to Thinkbroadband, currently over 90% of premises in Cornwall have access to Superfast Broadband, up from 33% in 2011. The local Superfast Cornwall project has a current delivery contract with BT which will extend coverage to at least a further 3% of premises within Cornwall.

As confirmed in our announcement in December 2017 we are pushing ahead with our plans for a Universal Service Obligation (USO) so that by 2020 everyone across the UK will have a clear, enforceable right to request high speed broadband.