R100 Broadband scheme progress: FOI release

Information requested

1. How many premises have so far been connected through the R100 broadband scheme broken down by north, south and central lot please?
2. For the north lot, could this be broken down by constituency please?
3. 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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