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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many unique property numbers in total have been included within operator build plans submitted to Building Digital UK.

As part of our Open Market Review and Public Review processes for Project Gigabit we ask broadband suppliers to submit build plans containing their current coverage and/or future build intentions. As of 2 September 2022, suppliers have submitted build plans for a total of 32.7 million premises. This figure includes all premises submitted to BDUK by a supplier, including where a supplier has indicated in their response that they do not expect to build to the premises commercially but has included them for completeness. As of 2 September 2022, build plans for 4.5 million premises were not assessed as credible.