To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been invested in the delivery of super-fast broadband by constituency for each year since 2015.
Answered on
28 May 2021
DCMS does not hold information on spend on superfast broadband at constituency level. Spend within superfast broadband project areas in England is summarised in the below table:
DCMS Investment in the delivery of Superfast Broadband from financial year 2015/16
Financial year = April to March
Negative amounts represent unused funding returned to DCMS.
County | 2015/16 £m | 2016/17 £m | 2017/18 £m | 2018/19 £m | 2019/20 £m | 2020/21 £m |
South Yorkshire | 0.85 | 2.37 | 1.21 | 3.21 | 1.98 | - |
Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes | 0.70 | 0.08 | 2.38 | 1.31 | 1.13 | 0.62 |
Cheshire | 1.35 | 2.29 | 0.08 | - | - | - |
Cornwall | - | 2.29 | 0.84 | 1.40 | 1.43 | - |
Cumbria | 8.06 | 4.21 | 1.60 | - | - | - |
Derbyshire | 6.47 | 1.58 | 0.61 | - | - | - |
Dorset | 5.66 | - | 1.30 | 0.16 | 1.84 | - |
Durham | 4.38 | 1.40 | 1.28 | - | 0.33 | - |
East Riding of Yorkshire | 2.17 | 1.92 | 2.39 | 1.60 | - | - |
East Sussex | 5.18 | 2.00 | 1.00 | - | - | - |
Essex | 3.01 | 2.67 | 2.43 | 1.20 | 0.96 | 0.54 |
Hampshire | 2.22 | 2.64 | 4.51 | 2.05 | - | - |
Herefordshire & Gloucestershire | 9.72 | 0.06 | 1.50 | 0.65 | 0.73 | 4.05 |
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire | 0.22 | 2.03 | 2.81 | 0.30 | - | - |
Isle of Wight | 1.34 | (0.93) | (0.01) | - | - | - |
Kent | 0.62 | 3.38 | 1.68 | - | - | - |
Lancashire | 2.10 | 0.47 | 2.44 | 0.93 | - | - |
West Yorkshire | 0.35 | 1.04 | - | - | - | - |
Leicestershire | 0.42 | 0.94 | 3.61 | - | - | - |
Lincolnshire | 5.94 | 0.68 | - | - | - | - |
Merseyside | 2.70 | - | - | - | - | - |
Norfolk | 2.70 | - | 3.41 | 4.40 | - | - |
North Lincolnshire | 0.39 | 1.10 | - | 0.40 | - | - |
Northamptonshire | 0.49 | 3.18 | 0.13 | 0.85 | 0.85 | - |
Northumberland | 4.24 | 1.58 | 1.42 | - | - | - |
Nottinghamshire | 3.49 | 2.63 | - | - | 0.55 | 0.17 |
North Yorkshire | - | - | - | 1.14 | 6.18 | - |
Oxfordshire | 4.12 | - | - | - | - | - |
Rutland | - | 0.18 | - | - | - | - |
Black Country | 2.19 | 0.71 | 0.09 | - | - | (0.08) |
Shropshire | 3.01 | 0.10 | 2.89 | 2.03 | 4.25 | 0.73 |
Devon & Somerset | 17.97 | 1.01 | - | 1.36 | 1.09 | 0.42 |
South Gloucestershire | 0.05 | 0.46 | - | 0.11 | 1.58 | 0.46 |
Staffordshire | 1.43 | 1.85 | 0.33 | - | - | - |
Greater Manchester | 0.85 | - | - | - | - | - |
Suffolk | 1.41 | - | - | 13.85 | - | - |
Swindon | 0.19 | 0.54 | - | 0.20 | - | - |
Telford & Wrekin | 0.13 | 0.28 | 1.75 | - | - | (0.05) |
Warwickshire | 0.99 | 2.83 | 1.12 | 0.67 | 1.62 | 2.27 |
Berkshire | 1.35 | 0.72 | 0.57 | 0.10 | 0.94 | - |
West Sussex | 2.04 | 0.92 | 0.33 | - | - | - |
West Oxfordshire | - | - | - | - | 1.60 | - |
West Yorkshire | - | 1.44 | 2.08 | 2.71 | 0.06 | - |
Wiltshire | 0.05 | 2.22 | 0.33 | 0.07 | 0.53 | 0.58 |
Worcestershire | 1.39 | 2.39 | - | 0.02 | 0.87 | 0.61 |
Funding for delivery in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was provided through funding transfers to the devolved administration governments. The devolved administrations in turn manage deployment and funding delivery in each of the nations. In the period 2015/16 to 2020/21 the relevant funding transfers were: Scotland £50.99m; Wales £12.11m; Northern Ireland £11.45m.
The total DCMS investment in the Superfast Broadband Programme to date across the UK as whole is £737m from the start of the programme in 2011.