Broadband
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 26 October 2009
Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East, Labour)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent estimate he has made of the number of people living in (a) the City of Sunderland and (b) England who have access to broadband internet at home.
Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)
This Department has not made a recent estimate of the number of homes with broadband access in Sunderland and does not have available information on broadband at home at nation level. Over 99 per cent. of all telephone exchanges in the UK are now broadband enabled, including those in the Sunderland area. Reception of reliable broadband may depend on factors such as distance from the exchange and other factors such as interference from home wiring.