Broadband: South Yorkshire

(asked on 15th December 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the £22 million budget for the South Yorkshire Broadband rollout has been provided by (a) BT, (b) BDUK, (c) Sheffield local authority, (d) Rotherham local authority, (e) Barnsley local authority and (f) Doncaster local authority.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 5th January 2015

The funding for the South Yorkshire project is set out below. There is no split between the local authorities, because the local funding is drawn from a single source of European funding; the Sheffield City Region Infrastructure Fund

BDUK funding - £7,875,000
Local Body funding - £6,975,000
BT funding - £7,562,189

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