Broadband

(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey, (c) the South East and (d) the UK do not yet have access to broadband speed of at least 2MBps.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 17th October 2016

Ofcom provides a local authority and postcode analysis of availability, most recently in their Connected Nations 2015 report at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/infrastructure-research/connected-nations-2015/downloads, which gave a rounded figure for Surrey of 0% of premises unable to receive 2Mbit/s in summer 2015. Ofcom's corresponding UK figure was 2% of premises.

Since then, the Government's Better Broadband Subsidy Scheme has been made available at http://basicbroadbandchecker.culture.gov.uk/ if customers cannot access an affordable broadband service with a speed of at least 2 Mbit/s.

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