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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the level of access to superfast fibre broadband for (a) businesses and (b) members of the public in Mansfield; and what steps he is taking to improve such access.

The department does not distinguish between businesses and homes. According to Thinkbroadband, 99.7% of premises in Mansfield currently have access to superfast broadband.

The government has invested heavily in Nottinghamshire, with over £7.8 million of central government funding allocated. Superfast rollout delivery is managed by Better Broadband for Nottinghamshire (https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/business-community/better-broadband-for-nottinghamshire-programme), our local delivery partner.

On top of superfast rollout, the department operates two vouchers schemes, the Gigabit Voucher Scheme and the Better Broadband Scheme, across the UK.