Huw Irranca-Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Huw Irranca-Davies on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 37W, on rural areas: broadband, what the latest figures are for how much funding is for projects (a) granted, (b) under pre-contract approval and (c) still under consideration for funding.

Dan Rogerson

The current breakdown of funding to date that has arisen from the Rural Community Broadband Fund is as follows:

a) Projects granted (contracted and in delivery) total: £0.459 million;

b) Projects with pre-contract approval total: £0.634 million; and

c) Projects under consideration total: £14.0 million.

Until contracted, all costs are estimated and subject to revision.