Asked by: Philip Boswell (Scottish National Party - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the planned date is for the roll-out of fibre broadband in (a) the Chryston area and (b) the constituency of Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
UK Government has allocated £122 million for the two Scottish Superfast Broadband projects - the Highlands and Islands project and the Digital Scotland project, which covers the rest of Scotland. Following the completion of the current contracted projects by December 2017, superfast broadband coverage will be around 93% within the Digital Scotland project area.
We estimate that 42,746 homes and businesses in Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill constituency will have superfast broadband available to them by the end of 2017.