Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what further data she plans to collect to identify geographical disparities in digital exclusion (i) nationwide and (ii) in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

Everyone in every community should benefit from technology. That’s why we published the Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February 2025. In July we published the results of our new annual Public Engagement Survey, showing nationally and regionally how adults engage with technology. This showed that 4.8% of adults nationally and 3.2% of adults in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (including Buckingham and Bletchley) are non-internet users. We’ll use this data to shape and support future policy development.