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1713717

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date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Disadvantaged
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to update the Digital skills and inclusion policy published on 5 April 2017, and when they plan to publish an updated version.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL4067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The 2022 Digital Strategy outlined work across Government to promote digital inclusion and digital skills. HMG is investing £3.8bn in skills in England by 2024-25 and recently quadrupled the scale of Skills Bootcamps. Additionally, the Digital Skills Entitlement offers free basic digital skills training to adults in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is responsible for coordinating cross-Government digital inclusion policy. Digital inclusion is a cross-cutting issue and responsibility for relevant policies, including monitoring and evaluation, sit within individual government departments.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose question first answered 09/05/2024 11:23:29 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1713718

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of the population they estimate will be digitally literate by 2030.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL4068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government has been clear that ensuring that no one is left behind in the digital age is a key priority. The 2023 Consumer Digital Index found that 92% of UK adults have the ‘Essential Digital Skills for Life’.</p><p>The National Curriculum subject of computing ensures that pupils become digitally literate so that they are able to use, express themselves and develop their ideas through information and communication technology, at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world. Computing is compulsory in all Local Authority maintained schools across Key Stages 1 to 4.</p><p>Media literacy is also included in the citizenship curriculum which is compulsory for all maintained secondary schools. Furthermore, under our ambitious Online Media Literacy Strategy, we have provided almost £2.5million in grant funding for projects designed to build the media literacy and critical thinking skills for users of all ages.</p><p>The government has also introduced a digital skills entitlement in August 2020 for adults with no or low digital skills to undertake specified digital qualifications, up to Level 1, free of charge. Such qualifications enable people to gain the skills needed to participate in modern life, access further study, and find and progress in work.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose question first answered 09/05/2024 15:20:36 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1713719

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Broadband: Social Tariffs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for reviewing the social tariff for broadband subscriptions, given Ofcom’s report of the low update of the current scheme.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL4069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government continues to work closely with Ofcom on the affordability of telecoms services, including social tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>In December, Ofcom’s Pricing Trends report, showed that 380,000 UK households now take up a social tariff, an almost 160% increase from the previous September, but just 8.3% of the total number of eligible households.</p><p> </p><p>The Government accepts that more is needed to ensure that low-income households are aware of social tariffs as well as other support that is available. However, it is also important to recognise that social tariffs may not be suitable for every household on Universal Credit, and commercial bundled packages - offering TV, broadband, landline and mobile services - may represent overall better value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and Ofcom continue to press operators to do more to raise awareness of social tariffs to their customers, with the regulator recently publishing <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/behavioural-insights/low-income-consumers-buy-high-quality-lower-cost-broadband" target="_blank">research</a> into the barriers to communicating offers to eligible households.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose question first answered 09/05/2024 11:25:03 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1713720

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how the AI Safety Institute, launched in November 2023, will report its findings, risk analysis and recommendations to Parliament.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL4070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The Institute reports directly to the Secretary of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, who will provide updates to Parliament in the usual way. The AI Safety Institute will publish, and make available to Parliament, its findings where it is appropriate to do so, given consideration on proprietary, sensitive, or national security-related information.</p> answering member printed Viscount Camrose question first answered 09/05/2024 10:58:26 answering member 4939 label Biography information for Viscount Camrose
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch