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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209985, how much of the Super Connected Cities Programme budget has been spent to date in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.

The Superconnected Cities Programme capital spend to 31 December 2014 was (a) £15.98m for England and (b) £0.97m for Wales, with annual budget transfers to the devolved administrations of (c) £7.65m for Scotland, (d) £5.78m for Northern Ireland.

Programme spend in all cities is expected to increase significantly as they complete their projects, and cities have been encouraged to commit their spending allocations by the end of March.