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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what comparative estimate he has made of the costs, other than initial offers, of a typical package of landline and broadband services in (a) the UK, (b) France, (c) Germany, (d) Spain and (e) Ireland.

The followingOfcom publications provide price comparisondata for the UK, France, Germany and Spain. Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report (December 2014)

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr14/international/; and Ofcom’s European Broadband Scorecard (February 2015)

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/broadband-research/scorecard/2015/European_Broadband_Scorecard_Q1_2015.pdf