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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2014 to Question 205697, whether the target of delivering superfast broadband to one million premises by the end of summer 2014 has been achieved; and how many premises which have been connected to superfast broadband by the end of summer 2014 are in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency.

The Government announced on 8 August 2014 that BDUK-supported superfast broadband coverage had exceeded 1 million premises. In the press release of 8 August 2014, the number of premises enabled under the BDUK programme in Cumbria was 38,965. Coverage information for below unitary authority level is not available, however proposed coverage plans and details on expected roll-out are available from Connecting Cumbria, the local project, at: http://www.connectingcumbria.org.uk/final-coverage-guide