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Baroness Blower (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2025

Debate

Mobile Phone and Broadband Prices

Contribution

My Lords, services such as NHS appointments, banking and even shopping, regrettably, have moved online. The typical cost of broadband is around £400 a year—assuming, of course, that people can afford to buy a phone or computer. A new class of social exclusion is therefore emerging. What assessment have the Government made of this new level of social exclusion and its consequences?

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