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 25 November 2014 to Question 215926, what the gap is between availability and actual take-up of superfast broadband in both (a) percentage and (b) absolute terms.

Ofcom’s Infrastructure Report 2014 stated that the availability of superfast broadband was 75% of UK premises in June 2014, that take-up of fixed broadband was 73% of UK residential premises, and that take-up of superfast broadband was 21% of UK premises.