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Internet: Older People

Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 128957, tabled on 14 December 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2020 to Question 126026 on Digital Technology, how many people over the age of 50 with earnings below £20,000 a year are internet users; and what plans his Department has to introduce targets for digital inclusion.

Answered on

22 December 2020

Data from the 2019 Oxford Internet Survey (https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/reports/) shows that 40 percent of those aged 50 and over, and with household earnings below £20,000 per year, are internet users. My department is not currently planning to introduce targets for digital inclusion.