Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress has been made on the provision of dongles for the purpose of home education online.

The Government is investing over £400 million to support access to remote education and online social care services, including securing 1.3 million laptops and tablets for disadvantaged children and young people.

To date, over 60,000 4G wireless routers have been delivered to pupils without a connection at home.

We have also partnered with the UK’s leading mobile operators to provide free data to help disadvantaged children get online. We are grateful to EE, Lycamobile, O2, Sky Mobile, Smarty, Tesco Mobile, Three, Virgin Mobile, BT Mobile and Vodafone for supporting the mobile data offer. We are currently engaged with additional mobile network operators and continue to invite a range of mobile network providers to support the offer.