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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made on the Broadband Delivery UK programme; and if he will make a statement.

The Government’s superfast broadband programme has made available superfast broadband to over one million premises and, with roll-out out progressing rapidly at 40,000 premises passed per week, the programme is on target to extend superfast coverage to 90% of premises by early 2016 and to 95% by December 2017.