Schools: Internet

(asked on 9th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2021 to Question 42022, what the (a) local authority and (b) regional breakdown is of the schools not in postcodes that (i) have access to full fibre internet and (ii) proposed commercial build within the next five years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 14th September 2021

According to data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), 3,835 schools are in postcodes that do not have access to full fibre or are currently not in areas of proposed commercial build within the next 5 years. Around 2,000 of those schools are in scope of DCMS’ Gigabit Hubs programme and so will have access to gigabit capable connectivity by 2025. These figures do not account for schools that have access to fibre through a private leased line arrangement to enable gigabit capable connectivity.

The future build plans of telecoms providers are commercially sensitive. The Government are therefore unable to disclose regional or local authority level data.

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