Scotland still woefully lags behind the rest of the UK on fibre broadband and superfast speed coverage.
Large areas of rural Scotland still experience extremely slow broadband, with the digital gap widening between urban and rural Scotland. The SNP government was given funding in 2014 by the UK Government for phase two of the roll-out but is only now using it for procurement.
It is clear that the UK Government has delivered, while the SNP continues to dither on broadband. It is past time that the SNP got on with the job of ensuring access for our rural communities instead of offering excuses. Scotland lags behind England and Wales on provision of superfast speeds above 24 Mbps. Some 93.7 per cent of premises in Scotland had access to speeds of over 24 Mbps compared to 95.7 per cent in England and 94.6 per cent in Wales.