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 England have access to superfast broadband.

Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 83% of homes and businesses in England 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 2.4 million additional homes and businesses in England now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following well over £313 million of contracted Government funding.