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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of community broadband schemes in England about the roll-out of superfast broadband services.

DCMS has worked with a number of local communities to progress community broadband schemes and, as a result, information and guidance for communities has been developed and published on the Department’s website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-led-broadband-schemes. This also includes case studies such as Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) (https://b4rn.org.uk/) and other examples.