Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of rolling out ultrafast full fibre broadband across Scotland.

Project Gigabit is supporting connectivity improvements across Scotland through contracted delivery. Openreach has been awarded a £157 million contract, and a further £131 million of contracts have been signed since the beginning of 2025, together covering over 70,000 additional Scottish premises. These contracts form part of the UK wide Project Gigabit programme, which is estimated to generate over £14 billion in economic benefits across the UK. The government does not publish disaggregated data on economic impact of Project Gigabit in Devolved Administrations.