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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many businesses in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region do not have access to high speed broadband.

There is a substantial commitment by national government for superfast broadband rollout and £5.46 million of central government funding has been allocated to the Merseyside Connected project. This has led to 39,216 additional homes and businesses now being able to access superfast broadband as a result of the local project, with the aim to have 42,204 additional premises by the end of the project. This will bring superfast coverage in Merseyside to 99% of premises.

The Department does not hold data specifically for businesses. The table below shows estimates of the number of premises (both residential and business) without access to superfast broadband in all of the Merseyside and Liverpool City Region constituencies.

Constituency	Number of Premises	Premises Without Access To Superfast Broadband
Birkenhead	44,111	458
Bootle	47,396	304
Garston and Halewood	45,355	836
Halton	44,739	1,098
Knowsley	48,681	596
Liverpool, Riverside	54,717	9,022
Liverpool, Walton	43,483	157
Liverpool, Wavertree	41,345	215
Liverpool, West Derby	40,579	0
Sefton Central	37,979	792
Southport	43,576	1,209
St Helens North	45,188	1503
St Helens South and Whiston	49,194	2,410
Wallasey	42,239	562
Wirral South	33,425	760
Wirral West	32,212	816