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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many broadband cabinets in Wales are not enabled for fibre or their locations.

Around 95% of properties in Wales can receive a superfast broadband service. The UK and Welsh Governments have invested over £200 million of public funding to roll out fast, reliable broadband to around 733,000 properties under the Superfast Cymru programme. This included funding from UK Government, Welsh Government, and the EU. There are now around 79,000 properties in Wales which cannot currently access superfast broadband speeds and are not in any commercial or public sector plans to receive it. Although not a devolved matter, this specific data is captured by Welsh

Government and can be found at https://gov.wales/next-generation-access-broadband-2019.

For queries about coverage, please refer to Ofcom Connected Nations data. Constituency data is available from the HoC library, that does some constituency level aggregations: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-broadband-coverage-and-speeds/

We would also draw your attention to this web site. Whilst the “official data” is the Ofcom Connected Nations report, the ThinkBroadband data tends to be slightly more up to date and is easier to search. https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/wales