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438610

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date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many homes in Northern Ireland do not have broadband coverage.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	20213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The Ofcom connected Nations report published in December 2015 reported 100% broadband coverage for all UK premises, including in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 05/01/2016 10:56:14 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

438611

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how public investment infrastructure in superfast broadband is calculated by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	20216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The funding allocations published by DCMS in February 2014 were based on maximising the numbers of premises that could be covered by superfast broadband, in addition to ensuring that each of the devolved nations had an allocation in line with the Barnett funding formula.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 05/01/2016 10:57:47 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

436184

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) homes and (b) businesses in Wales have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	19273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 79% of homes and businesses in Wales had access to superfast broadband. The full report can be found here -<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf</a></p><p>The Government’s programme to deliver superfast broadband has ensured that so far more than 504,000 additional homes and businesses in Wales now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following almost £67 million of contracted Government funding.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/12/2015 17:14:11 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

436185

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) homes and (b) businesses in Scotland have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	19274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 73% of homes and businesses in Scotland had access to superfast broadband. The full report can be found here -<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Government’s programme to deliver superfast broadband has ensured that so far more than 356,000 additional homes and businesses in Scotland now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following investment of over £100 million of contracted Government funding.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/12/2015 17:16:51 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

436186

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) homes and (b) businesses in England have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	19275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 83% of homes and businesses in England had access to superfast broadband. The full report can be found here -<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Government’s programme to deliver superfast broadband has ensured that so far more than 2.4 million additional homes and businesses in England now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following well over £313 million of contracted Government funding.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/12/2015 17:18:44 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

436188

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) homes and (b) businesses in Northern Ireland have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	19276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom’s Connected Nations Infrastructure Report 2015 states that in May 2015, 77% of homes and businesses in Northern Ireland had access to superfast broadband. The full report can be found here -<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2015/downloads/connected_nations2015.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Government’s programme to deliver superfast broadband has ensured that so far more than 18,000 additional homes and businesses in Northern Ireland now have access to superfast broadband, which would not have been reached commercially, following over £11.4 million of contracted Government funding.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/12/2015 17:20:14 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

432209

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress he has made on superfast broadband delivery in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	17656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed toprovidingsuperfast broadband coverage to 95 per centof UK premisesby 2017. At the end Phase 1 of the programme, we expect to reach 90 per cent coverage across the UK -and more than 90 per cent superfast coverage in around two thirds of local body partnership areas. For the longer term the Government will also launch a public consultation early next year in preparation for the implementation of a new broadband Universal Service Obligation, with the ambition to give people the legal right to request a connection to broadband with speeds of 10 Mbps, no matter where in the country they live.</p><br /><p>Data on regional and local coverage of superfast broadband was published by Ofcom in its Infrastructure Report in December 2014:</p><br /><p><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/infrastructure/2014/Fixed_local_authority.csv</a>.</p><p>DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163:</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&amp;td=2015-04-01&amp;house=1&amp;search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&amp;itemId=122028#toggle-163" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&amp;td=2015-04-01&amp;house=1&amp;search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&amp;itemId=122028#toggle-163</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 30/11/2015 10:00:22 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker