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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of spending on infrastructure to support fibre-optic broadband installation in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

DCMS publishes official statistics on the Broadband Performance Indicator at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/broadband-performance-indicators with the latest numbers showing that BDUK grants to local authorities and budget transfers to devolved administrations amounted cumulatively to £406,918,848 to December 2015.