Question follow-through · 47836
Digital Technology: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his Department has made with the Digital Poverty Alliance on providing re-purposed Government laptops to people who need them.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 2 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his Department has made with the Digital Poverty Alliance on providing re-purposed Government laptops to people who need them.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 May 2025
Answer published
The Government is implementing a device donation pilot by working with the Digital Poverty Alliance to refurbish end-of-life laptops from DSIT, DESNZ and DBT and distribute them to those who need them most. This pilot will be in effect until Autumn 2025.W...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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