Broadband Delivery UK money allocation announced

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:

1. Bedfordshire – £1,060,000
2. Berkshire – £1,430,000
3. Buckinghamshire – £2,100,000
4. Cambridgeshire – £6,750,000
5. Cheshire – £3,240,000
6. Cornwall & Isles of Scilly – £0 (presumed covered by BT measures)
7. Cumbria – £17,130,000
8. Derbyshire – £7,390,000
9. Devon & Somerset – £31,320,000
10. Dorset – £9,440,000
11. Durham – £7,790,000
12. East Sussex – £10,640,000
13. Essex – £6,460,000
14. Gloucestershire – £8,070,000
15. Greater London – £0 (presumed covered privately)
16. Greater Manchester – £990,000
17. Hampshire & the Isle Of Wight – £8,420,000
18. Herefordshire – £6,350,000
19. Hertfordshire – £1,110,000
20. Humber – £8,540,000 (subject to revision)
21. Kent – £9,870,000
22. Lancashire – £10,830,00
23. Leicestershire & Rutland – £3,880,000
24. Lincolnshire – £14,310,000
25. Merseyside – £5,460,000
26. Norfolk – £15,440,000
27. Northamptonshire – £4,080,000
28. Northumberland – £7,030,000
29. North Yorkshire – £17,840,000
30. Nottinghamshire – £4,250,000
31. Oxfordshire – £3,860,000
32. Shropshire – £8,210,000
33. South Yorkshire – £0 (presumed covered by digital region limited)
34. Staffordshire – £7,440,000
35. Suffolk – £11,880,000
36. Surrey – £1,310,000
37. Tees Valley – £770,000
38. Tyne and Wear – £3,420,000
39. Warwickshire – £4,070,000
40. West of England – £1,430,000
41. West Midlands – £630,000
42. West Sussex – £6,260,000
43. 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.