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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of average broadband speeds in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.

The Department does not hold information on current average broadband speed in either rural or urban areas. The 2016 Ofcom Connected Nations report showed that across the UK the average download speed is 37Mit/s.