Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the average household spend on (a) internet, (b) landline and (c) mobile telephone contracts in each of the last seven years.

Ofcom, as the UK’s independent communications regulator, has conducted research into average household spending by consumers on communication services. Ofcom’s “Pricing trends for communications services in the UK” report of 15 March 2017, provides information covering the period between 2005 and 2015 and further details can be found on page 11 at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/multi-sector-research/general-communications/pricing