Maria Eagle MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, responding to the cross-party report into broadband rollout, said:

“This cross-party report shows again that the Tory Government is letting down millions of households and businesses over its roll out of high speed broadband.

"Tory ministers talk a lot about the ‘global race’, but as this report makes clear, the UK is now falling behind many of its international competitors when it comes to access to broadband.

"Whilst we await the outcome of the Ofcom review into BT Openreach, this report shows just how far the Government still has to go to keep its promises on rolling out broadband.”

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Notes to the editor:

1) Coverage of the report’s release can be read here: http://gu.com/p/4g48n?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other