Broadband: Urban Areas

(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) small and medium-sized enterprises based and (b) broadband connection vouchers distributed in each SuperConnected City.


Answered by
Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 3rd March 2015

The numbers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in cities, and other areas in the UK, is collected and made available by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).


The table below details the number of broadband connection vouchers distributed in each SuperConnected City, as reported by suppliers and cities to mid-February:

SCCP City

No. of Vouchers to mid-February 2015

Aberdeen

45

Belfast

736

Birmingham

578

Brighton & Hove

150

Bristol

167

Cambridge

152

Cardiff

332

Coventry

266

Derby

81

Derry/Londonderry

113

Edinburgh

352

Leeds-Bradford

1,546

London

4,010

Manchester

1,093

Newcastle

236

Newport

55

Oxford

88

Perth

23

Portsmouth

108

Salford

238

York

78

Total

10,447

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