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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average (a) download and (b) upload speed in (i) the UK, (ii) the Southeast, (iii) Medway and (iv) Gillingham and Rainham constituency was on the latest date for which figures are available.

Ofcom is responsible for monitoring the UK broadband market and provides regular updates. In its Infrastructure Report published in December 2014 it reported that in June 2014 average download speed in Medway was 31.8Mbit/sand the average upload speed was 3.8Mbit/s. These compare with the UK average download speed of 23.4Mbit/s and average upload speed of 3.2Mbit/s. Information is not available at a constituency level, but is available at a postcode level at http://infrastructure.ofcom.org.uk/