Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 1492, what the proportionate baseline is for the goal of reducing the proportion of UK adults who lack basic digital skills by 25 per cent by 2016; and until what year he plans to reduce that proportion by a further 25 per cent.

The proportionate baseline was the 20% of the adult population who lacked basic digital skills in March/May 2014, as measured by BBC research.