Committees

Digital exclusion and the cost of living

Inquiry

This inquiry will examine how to tackle digital exclusion in the context of the cost of living crisis.

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The deadline for submissions was Tuesday 7 March 2023.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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3rd Report - Digital exclusion
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HL Paper 219
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Response to this report
Government response to the Committee's report 'Digital exclusion', HL Paper 219, 3rd Report, Session 2022-23
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Government Response
Response to this report
Letter to the Chair from Lindsey Fussell, Group Director, Networks and Communications, Ofcom dated 31 July 2023
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Correspondence

Correspondence

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Letter to the Chair from Paul Scully MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, dated 10 November 2023
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Letter from the Chair to Paul Scully MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, dated 19 October 2023
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Letter to the Chair from Paul Scully MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, dated 19 September 2023
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Oral evidence transcripts

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2 May 2023
Inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living
Witnesses Paul Scully MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy) at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology), and Holly Creek (Deputy Director for Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer Policy at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
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Oral Evidence
25 April 2023
Inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living
Witnesses Lindsey Fussell (Group Director for Networks & Communications at Ofcom), and Cristina Luna-Esteban (Director of Telecoms Consumer Protection at Ofcom)
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Oral Evidence
25 April 2023
Inquiry Digital exclusion and the cost of living
Witnesses Liam Halligan (Columnist at The Telegraph, and Economics and Business Editor at GB News Limited), Ellen Judson (Head of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos), and Hugo Drayton (Chair of Trustees at Citizens Online)
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Written evidence

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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DCL0089)
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APLE Collective (DCL0013)
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Careful Industries, and Promising Trouble (DCL0088)
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Government Responses
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Contact us

  • Email: holcommunications@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8662 (committee staff) | 020 7219 8535 (Press Officer)
  • Address: Communications and Digital Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW