Question follow-through · 71674
Broadband: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households with occupants over the age of 75 that do not have access to reliable broadband.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households with occupants over the age of 75 that do not have access to reliable broadband.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
Ofcom, the independent regulator of telecommunications, estimates that there are 48,000 premises without access to decent broadband – i.e. at least 10Mbit/s download and 1Mbit/s upload speed - in the UK. We do not have sufficient data to estimate how many...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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