Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 71674

Broadband: Older People

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households with occupants over the age of 75 that do not have access to reliable broadband.

Answer

Ian Murray

Ofcom, the independent regulator of telecommunications, estimates that there are 48,000 premises without access to decent broadband – i.e. at least 10Mbit/s download and 1Mbit/s upload speed - in the UK. We do not have sufficient data to estimate how many...

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