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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the date by which every house in the country, including in rural areas, will have access to superfast broadband.

The Government has committed to making superfast broadband available to 95% of UK premises by the end of 2017. The Government is also funding a number of pilot projects looking at alternative approaches to delivering superfast broadband beyond 95%.