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
