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Question for Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

UIN 161241, tabled on 8 March 2023

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell
Democratic Unionist Party
East Londonderry
Commons

To ask Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent estimate she has made of when at least 85 per cent of households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland will have access to gigabit-capable broadband.

Answer

Julia Lopez
Conservative
Hornchurch and Upminster
Commons

Answered on

13 March 2023

The Government is committed to working with broadband suppliers so that 85% of UK premises can access gigabit-capable broadband by 2025.

We are on track to achieve our target. At present, over 74% of UK premises can access a gigabit-capable connection, up from just 6% in January 2019.

In Northern Ireland, 90.6% of premises already have access to gigabit-capable broadband. This is the highest percentage of any of the four UK nations, followed by England (75.5%), Scotland (68.3%) and Wales (59.5%).

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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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