Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has for tackling digital exclusion over this Parliament; and if he will publish the data that his Department collects on digital exclusion.

Government is committed to making digital inclusion part of wider policy, programmes and digital services. Investment has been made in the national super-fast broadband roll out and funding for a basic digital skills programme that will reach 1 million digitally excluded people over 5 years and £7.4m has also been committed to fund free wifi and internet access for libraries in England.

Digital inclusion is tracked through data collected and published by organisations such the ONS (internet use) and BBC/Go ON UK (basic digital skills). We will continue to monitor progress on this basis.