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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with ministers of the Scottish Government ways to make faster progress on providing broadband to rural communities in East Lothian constituency.

The UK Government is supporting the delivery of superfast broadband by the Scottish Government through the superfast broadband programme. It is providing over £121 million in funding, which should make superfast broadband available to over 720,000 additional premises in Scotland.

Broadband Delivery UK has regular meetings with the Scottish Government and provides extensive commercial and project support to assist delivery of the Government's broadband objectives through the projects in Scotland.