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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people working on the broadband delivery programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.

We do not hold specific data as to how many people are currently working on delivering broadband across the areas as stated in the question. Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) also works with several other Government departments on delivering broadband including HM Treasury, Department of Education, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, DEFRA and BEIS plus arms length bodies such as Ofcom.