Question follow-through · 901954
Digital Technology: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle digital exclusion.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle digital exclusion.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
It is shocking that the last government published no digital inclusion strategy for 10 years. This Government is determined to remedy that and I hope to be able to say more soon.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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