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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who selected which towns and cities are eligible for Broadband Connection Vouchers.

DCMS set the eligibility criteria for those cities announced by the Chancellor at the Budget in March. The 50 cities invited to participate were 1) the 22 existing Super Connected cities, 2) cities that applied or were eligible to apply to the Super Connected Cities Programme, and 3) cities already participating in the City Deal programme (or related programme in the home nations).

The participating cities set their own intervention areas based on their economic priorities.