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 4 June 215 to Question 614, whether the £7.4 million being made available to help all public libraries to install wi-fi is only for the capital cost of installation; what estimate he has made of the average cost of installing wi-fi; and what estimate has he made of the non-capital costs over each of the next five years of providing free wi-fi in the libraries that do not have it.

£7.1m from the £7.4m has been allocated as capital costs, the remaining £0.3m is administrative costs to manage the grant scheme. The estimated figures for the average installation and on-going costs for WiFi will be included in the project specification which will be published at the launch of the scheme in July.