Broadband Delivery UK money allocation announced
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
Jeremy Hunt the culture secretary today announced how the £363 million cut of the proposed £530 million investment in the UK broadband network will be allocated in England and Scotland particularly for those in rural areas.
Mr Hunt said:
Fast broadband is absolutely vital to our economic growth, to delivering public services effectively, and to conducting our everyday lives”.
But some areas of the UK are missing out, with many rural and hard-to-reach communities suffering painfully slow internet connections or no coverage at all. We are not prepared to let some parts of our country get left behind in the digital age”.
The breakdown is as follows:
- Bedfordshire – £1,060,000
- Berkshire – £1,430,000
- Buckinghamshire – £2,100,000
- Cambridgeshire – £6,750,000
- Cheshire – £3,240,000
- Cornwall & Isles of Scilly – £0 (presumed covered by BT measures)
- Cumbria – £17,130,000
- Derbyshire – £7,390,000
- Devon & Somerset – £31,320,000
- Dorset – £9,440,000
- Durham – £7,790,000
- East Sussex – £10,640,000
- Essex – £6,460,000
- Gloucestershire – £8,070,000
- Greater London – £0 (presumed covered privately)
- Greater Manchester – £990,000
- Hampshire & the Isle Of Wight – £8,420,000
- Herefordshire – £6,350,000
- Hertfordshire – £1,110,000
- Humber – £8,540,000 (subject to revision)
- Kent – £9,870,000
- Lancashire – £10,830,00
- Leicestershire & Rutland – £3,880,000
- Lincolnshire – £14,310,000
- Merseyside – £5,460,000
- Norfolk – £15,440,000
- Northamptonshire – £4,080,000
- Northumberland – £7,030,000
- North Yorkshire – £17,840,000
- Nottinghamshire – £4,250,000
- Oxfordshire – £3,860,000
- Shropshire – £8,210,000
- South Yorkshire – £0 (presumed covered by digital region limited)
- Staffordshire – £7,440,000
- Suffolk – £11,880,000
- Surrey – £1,310,000
- Tees Valley – £770,000
- Tyne and Wear – £3,420,000
- Warwickshire – £4,070,000
- West of England – £1,430,000
- West Midlands – £630,000
- West Sussex – £6,260,000
- West Yorkshire – £6,340,000
The aim of the scheme is to have 90% of the UK having access to at least 2mbps by the year 2015, Mr Hunt has urged those with frustratingly slow connections to contact their local elected representatives to push for better connections in their areas.
The private sector is said to be covering around two thirds of the UK, the funding from the BDUK is for those area’s deemed in need not those that necessarily have more people living or working in a particular county.
