Oral QuestionDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

What steps she is taking to close the digital divide between people (a) with and (b) without access to the internet.

Tabled: 3 February 2022Answered: 10 February 2022

Asked by

Stephen Morgan

LabourPortsmouth South

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves)

Sorry, Mr Speaker, bear with me. [ Laughter. ] This Government are committed to growing the economy, and we were the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first half of this year. We have done three trade deals and cut interest rates five times—and I did not even need my notes to remember all that.