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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the number and proportion of households in Weaver Vale constituency which do not have access to high-speed broadband.

Data from Thinkbroadband (http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/weaver-vale,E14001024) and the Department's own models indicate that, of the 40,400 premises in Weaver Vale, 2.4% or approximately 975 premises do not have access to what the Department determines to be 'high speed' broadband (more than 10Mbits/second). We do not hold this figure broken down between residential, commercial and industrial premises.