Bulletin: BDUK delivery performance, quarterly: April 2024 to December 2024
Published 24 July 2025
1. 听础产辞耻迟听迟丑颈蝉听谤别濒别补蝉别
This聽quarterly聽statistics聽report聽presents how many premises in the United Kingdom have received a gigabit-capable broadband connection as a result of BDUK subsidy. The figures cover premises that received gigabit-capable coverage through Building Digital聽UK (BDUK)聽subsidy between 1 April 2024 and 31 December 2024. We also present revised figures from earlier time periods.
This is the first release of this series of official statistics. For questions or suggestions to improve the relevance of this report, its overall readability, or the format and content of the tables to ensure they meet user needs, please contact us at statistics@bduk.gov.uk.
2. 听贬别补诲濒颈苍别听蹿颈苍诲颈苍驳蝉
奥别听别蝉迟颈尘补迟别听迟丑补迟听BDUK听颈苍迟别谤惫别苍迟颈辞苍蝉听诲别濒颈惫别谤别诲 113,700 premises聽with聽gigabit-capable聽coverage聽between聽1聽April聽2024聽and聽31聽December聽2024. A cumulative estimate of 1,188,400 premises have received gigabit-capable coverage by BDUK鈥檚 gigabit programmes since their inception.
Of聽the聽premises聽delivered by聽BDUK听产别迟飞别别苍听1听础辫谤颈濒听2024听补苍诲听31听顿别肠别尘产别谤听2024:
- 38%聽(43,400)聽were delivered under the Government聽Infrastructure Subsidy scheme (GIS, Gigabit contracts)
- 38% (42,900) were delivered by vouchers
- 24% (27,500) were delivered by Superfast & Hubs
奥别听肠辞耻苍迟听产辞迟丑听诲颈谤别肠迟濒测听蝉耻产蝉颈诲颈蝉别诲听辫谤别尘颈蝉别蝉听补蝉听飞别濒濒听补蝉听耻苍肠辞尘尘别谤肠颈补濒听辫谤别尘颈蝉别蝉听迟丑补迟听
飞别谤别听苍辞迟听诲颈谤别肠迟濒测听蹿耻苍诲别诲听产耻迟听谤别肠别颈惫别诲听肠辞苍苍别肠迟颈辞苍蝉听补蝉听补听谤别蝉耻濒迟听辞蹿听苍别补谤产测听BDUK funded聽projects.聽As聽a聽result,聽all聽premises聽passed聽figures聽are聽estimates聽based聽on聽a聽combination聽of聽 raw聽supplier聽data聽and聽modelled聽estimates.
The premises passed values in the previous financial years have been reviewed due to improved quality reporting by suppliers. More information on this can be found in our Quality and Methodology Information report.
3. 听笔耻产濒颈肠补迟颈辞苍听颈苍蹿辞谤尘补迟颈辞苍
3.1 听顿补迟补听蝉辞耻谤肠别蝉
We聽used聽the聽following聽data聽sources聽for聽this quarterly (1 April 2024 to 31 December 2024) performance聽report:
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BDUK聽management聽information聽as聽of聽10聽July 2025
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狈补迟颈辞苍补濒听厂迟补迟颈蝉迟颈肠蝉听UPRN听尝辞辞办耻辫听(NSUL):聽April 2025
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狈补迟颈辞苍补濒听厂迟补迟颈蝉迟颈肠蝉听Postcode听尝辞辞办耻辫听(NSPL):聽February 2025
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Ofcom聽Connected聽Nations:聽July 2024聽data聽from Summer Update 2024
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翱谤诲苍补苍肠别听厂耻谤惫别测听(OS)听础诲诲谤别蝉蝉叠补蝉别听笔谤别尘颈耻尘:听贰辫辞肠丑听117
3.2 聽Changes聽from聽previous releases聽
This is BDUK鈥檚 first official quarterly statistics publication, publishing delivery performance from April 2024 to December 2024, and revising earlier time series. These figures build on the figures previously published in the BDUK annual performance report 2024.
BDUK updates its historical time series with each release. This is because BDUK works closely with suppliers to improve the quality of their reporting; when improvements are made, we may receive revised information that alters the original delivery date of a premises or corrects the number of premises passed.
As we improve our methodology, we have been able to discount premises where a commercial supplier built before our subsidised supplier under the GIS intervention. This has resulted in a downward revision of approximately 1% of the previously published GIS total before 31 March 2024, from 11,100 to 11,000. The cumulative overbuild reduction to 31 December 2024 is 12.5% (7,730 premises); that is, of the 62,030 premises built by suppliers under our GIS contracts (Table 10), we have removed 7,730 premises due mostly to overbuild, resulting in a total of 54,300 premises passed by our GIS contracts (Table 8).
As we receive more robust data from suppliers delivering under the vouchers intervention, we transition premises within projects from the conservative multiplier methodology (which estimates total premises passed using a fixed multiplier per connected voucher) to a data-driven counting methodology (which uses specific premises data reported by suppliers). This shift has contributed to an increase in the number of premises passed via vouchers.
3.3 Known issues聽
BDUK is currently working on a methodology to improve the identification of UPRNs for addresses which currently do not have an associated one; this will improve the accuracy of our counting methodology.