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 10 February 2015 to Question 223017, if he will publish his Department's analysis of the geographic location of the final five per cent of premises not covered by the superfast roll-out programme.

Superfast Broadband will be available to 95% of UK homes and businesses by 2017.

The remaining 5% (approx. 1.5 million premises) are dispersed across 70% of the UK geography. They are in a mix of locations, with differing topographies, population densities and with different proximity to existing broadband networks. Approximately 1% (i.e. 20% of the final 5%) are in urban areas.

Our understanding of the exact location of these premises is improving as the rollout of Phase 1 and 2 of the programme progresses. Each local broadband project has published maps and postcode checkers showing the location of the current roll-out plans, thereby indicating the remaining areas which are not within current coverage plans.

More information on the Market Test Pilots that the Government has commissioned to test solutions for bringing superfast broadband to these locations can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/superfast-broadband-programme-phase-3