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Broadband: Standards

Commons · Question 125032 · Tabled 10 Apr 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 20 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate her Department has made of the number of households in (a) Ceredigion Preseli constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK without access to a broadband connection speed greater

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 20 Apr 2026

Customers can access home broadband via fixed-wired (copper/fibre) and fixed-wireless access connections. For the 10Mbps download speed criterion alone, Ofcom only publish data for fixed-wired network types. However, data gathered by Ofcom for the Broadba...