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R100 Superfast Broadband: FOI release
Information requested
1. In how many homes has superfast broadband been installed in under the R100 programme? Please break this down by financial year and council area.
2. How much has been spent on the R100 programme? Please break this down by financial year and council area.
Response
Question 1: In how many homes has superfast broadband been installed in under the R100 programme? Please break this down by financial year and council area.
You have since clarified that you were referring to cases where a connection has been delivered through the R100 programme and where the owner/resident has subsequently requested a broadband service. You also clarified that you were seeking data for all premises (business and residential) connected through R100.
The R100 programme is delivered through three key strands of activity - the R100 contracts, the R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (R100 SBVS) and continued commercial build. The table below provides the number of premises in each local authority area that have taken up a superfast broadband service following R100 contract build in the area. Unfortunately, we do not hold take-up information by financial year for premises built through the R100 contracts.
Local Authority Take Up Aberdeen City 63 Aberdeenshire 1,341 Angus 70 Argyll and Bute 956 City of Edinburgh 53 Clackmannanshire 74 Dumfries and Galloway 1,784 Dundee City 0 East Ayrshire 681 East Dunbartonshire 55 East Lothian 478 East Renfrewshire 0 Falkirk 37 Fife 985 Glasgow City 0 Highland 851 Inverclyde 45 Midlothian 384 Moray 28 Na h-Eileanan an Iar 0 North Ayrshire 348 North Lanarkshire 35 Orkney Islands 164 Perth and Kinross 447 Renfrewshire 25 Scottish Borders 1,176 Shetland Islands 173 South Ayrshire 1,119 South Lanarkshire 1,023 Stirling 224 West Dunbartonshire 173 West Lothian 34 Totals 12,826
Another key strand of the R100 programme is the R100 Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme (R100 SBVS). The table below provides take up figures for premises connected through the R100 SBVS by financial year.
R100 SBVS FY 2020/21 FY 2021/22 FY 2022/23 FY 2023/24 Grand Total Grand Total 214 1,547 1,280 736 3,777
Additionally, the below table provides the breakdown for R100 SBVS for each local authority area.
Local Authority Take Up Aberdeen City 17 Aberdeenshire 742 Angus 242 Argyll and Bute 143 City of Edinburgh 29 Clackmannanshire 21 Dumfries and Galloway 184 Dundee City 20 East Ayrshire 36 East Dunbartonshire 9 East Lothian 17 East Renfrewshire 16 Falkirk 46 Fife 58 Glasgow City 21 Highland 629 Inverclyde * Midlothian 32 Moray 301 Na h-Eileanan an Iar 14 North Ayrshire 30 North Lanarkshire 47 Orkney Islands 76 Perth and Kinross 343 Renfrewshire 21 Scottish Borders 307 Shetland Islands 35 South Ayrshire 24 South Lanarkshire 85 Stirling 221 West Dunbartonshire * West Lothian * Grand Total 3,777
* values less than 5 have been redacted to prevent identification of individuals. The above data is correct as at 20 February 2024.
We do not hold take-up data for premises that have had a service delivered commercially, i.e. a connection that has not been delivered as a result of the R100 contracts or R100 SBVS.
Question 2: How much has been spent on the R100 programme? Please break this down by financial year and council area.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. We are unable to provide a breakdown of spend by local authority area as funding for delivery of the R100 programme – which includes both the R100 contracts and R100 SBVS - is not distributed on a local authority area basis.
For information, please see the below table detailing actual spend for the R100 programme to date. Please note that the spend for year 2023/24 is as of 01 February 2024 as the current financial year is still ongoing.
Financial Year Total Spend (£m) 2020/21 £4.5 2021/22 £12.2 2022/23 £105.2 2023/24 (as of 01/02/24) £72.5
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