Question follow-through · 65773
Digital Technology: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help tackle digital skills inequalities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help tackle digital skills inequalities.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
In February we published a Digital Inclusion Action Plan, which outlines the first five actions we are taking over the next year to boost digital inclusion across the UK.These will be targeted at local initiatives for boosting digital skills and confidenc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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