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Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many businesses in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region do not have access to high speed broadband.

Karen Bradley

There is a substantial commitment by national government for superfast broadband rollout and £5.46 million of central government funding has been allocated to the Merseyside Connected project. This has led to 39,216 additional homes and businesses now being able to access superfast broadband as a result of the local project, with the aim to have 42,204 additional premises by the end of the project. This will bring superfast coverage in Merseyside to 99% of premises.

The Department does not hold data specifically for businesses. The table below shows estimates of the number of premises (both residential and business) without access to superfast broadband in all of the Merseyside and Liverpool City Region constituencies.

Constituency

Number of Premises

Premises Without Access To Superfast Broadband

Birkenhead

44,111

458

Bootle

47,396

304

Garston and Halewood

45,355

836

Halton

44,739

1,098

Knowsley

48,681

596

Liverpool, Riverside

54,717

9,022

Liverpool, Walton

43,483

157

Liverpool, Wavertree

41,345

215

Liverpool, West Derby

40,579

0

Sefton Central

37,979

792

Southport

43,576

1,209

St Helens North

45,188

1503

St Helens South and Whiston

49,194

2,410

Wallasey

42,239

562

Wirral South

33,425

760

Wirral West

32,212

816