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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) homes and (b) businesses in Wales have access to superfast broadband.

Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 79% of homes and businesses in Wales had access to superfast broadband. The full report can be found here -http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf

The Government’s programme to deliver superfast broadband has ensured that so far more than 504,000 additional homes and businesses in Wales now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following almost £67 million of contracted Government funding.