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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with the Scottish Government steps to increase progress on the roll out of superfast broadband in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.

Superfast broadband has already been made available to over 110,000 premises in Scotland and we are working closely with the Scottish Government and suppliers to maintain the pace of delivery which has increased to an average across the whole of the UK to 40,000 premises a week.

The roll-out in Scotland is on schedule to deliver superfast broadband to 70% coverage to some of the most remote and challenging locations in the Highlands & Islands and 95% to the Rest of Scotland by the end of 2017.