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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 5 of part two of her Department's 2017 Digital Strategy, when the programme to ensure that adults who lack core digital skills can access specified basic digital skills training free of charge will be rolled out.

The legislation to underpin the new digital entitlement is being progressed as part of an amendment to the digital economy bill. Further timescales will be set out in due course. The Government continues to support adults to improve their basic digital skills, both through the Adult Education Budget for education providers to offer digital training as part of their education offer, and an additional programme with The Good Things Foundation that aims to educate adults with the very basic skills needed to be able to search confidently and safely online and access public services, which has supported 680,000 people since 2014.