PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Internet (27 January 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with representatives of mobile operators on how long NHS websites that have been zero-rated during the covid-19 will continue to be zero-rated and so remain accessible without internet data plans being charged.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

In March 2020 we worked with Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three to secure free online access to the following websites:

- NHS.UK;

- 111.nhs.uk;

- wales.nhs.uk;

- nhsinform.scot;

- nidirect.gov.uk; and

- publichealth.hscni.net.

We also agreed time-limited data provisions for Attend Anywhere, our main provider of video consultations. The provisions we made for access to the above websites and Attend Anywhere were temporary and concluded by the end of 2020.

Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
3 February 2022