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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