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Josh Babarinde Excerpts
Wednesday 20th November 2024

(1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Josh Babarinde Portrait Josh Babarinde (Eastbourne) (LD)
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Organisations such as TechResort in my constituency support people who are digitally excluded to become digitally included. The Minister has a long list of meetings to go to, so instead, can the Secretary of State come along the coast to the sunniest town in the UK to visit TechResort and hear more about the funding it needs to power its work?

Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant
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I am pleased to say that the Secretary of State says he will indeed visit when he possibly can.

There is a really important point here: poor digital connectivity excludes so many communities up and down this country. We have no chance of creating the economic growth that we want in this country unless we take the whole of the country with us. That is why it is so disgraceful that we have not had a proper digital inclusion strategy for 10 years. That is something we will remedy.