FOI/202300359656 · FOI · not held
R100 Broadband scheme progress: FOI release
Information requested
How many premises have so far been connected through the R100 broadband scheme broken down by north, south and central lot please? For the north lot, could this be broken down by constituency please? Please could you tell me the estimated number of properties which are still left to be connected?
Response
1. How many premises have so far been connected through the R100 broadband scheme broken down by north, south and central lot please?
The below table shows the number of premises connected in each of the three regional lots (Lot 1 North, Lot 2 Central, and Lot 3 South).
Figures show premises connected via R100 contract build and R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scottish Ministers, special advisers and the Permanent Secretary are covered by the terms of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016. See Scheme (R100 SBVS).
Please note that R100 contract build figures are accurate as at 31/05/2023 and R100 SBVS figures as at 01/06/2023.
Number of premises R100 Contract R100 SBVS Lot 1 (North) 6,897 1,859 Lot 2 (Central) 8,905 810 Lot 3 (South) 8,392 503
2. For the north lot, could this be broken down by constituency please?
The below table shows the number of premises connected via R100 contract build and R100 SBVS for the Lot 1 North, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.
Please note that R100 contract build figures are accurate as at 31/05/2023 and R100 SBVS figures as at 01/06/2023.
Number of premises R100 North Contract R100 SBVS Aberdeen Central 0 0 Aberdeen Donside 165 2 Aberdeen South and North Kincardine 435 29 Aberdeenshire East 696 205 Aberdeenshire West 595 256 Angus North and Mearns 758 162 Angus South 0 74 Argyll and Bute 1,210 83 Banffshire and Buchan Coast 0 129 Caithness, Sutherland and Ross 1,121 139 Dundee City East 0 2 Dundee City West 0 17 Inverness and Nairn 395 41 Moray 0 229 Na h-Eileanan an Iar 0 0 Orkney Islands 342 66 Perthshire North 448 117 Shetland Islands 429 35 Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch 303 271 Stirling 0 2 Total 6,897 1,859
Please note that some Scottish Parliamentary constituencies sit within two R100 regional contract lots. In the above figures, only connections delivered within Lot 1 (North) are shown.
3. Please could you tell me the estimated number of properties which are still left to be connected?
The below table shows the number of premises contracted for delivery in each of the three regional lots (Lot 1 North, Lot 2 Central, and Lot 3 South). Please note these figures relate to the number of premises contracted for connection via R100 contracts build only. Figures for R100 SBVS cannot be provided because, as it is a demand-led scheme, the Scottish Government does not hold data on the number of premises that will secure a future connection over the lifetime of the R100 SBVS.
Please note that R100 contract build figures are accurate as at 31/05/2023.
Number of premises contracted for delivery Number of contracted premises delivered Number of contracted premises still left to be connected Lot 1 (North) 60,764 6,897 53,867 Lot 2 (Central) 32,216 8,905 23,311 Lot 3 (South) 21,889 8,392 13,497
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