In April, weeks after schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that the Department for Education would invest 150m to provide laptops and 4G routers for disadvantaged year 10 pupils and those in all year groups with a social worker or classed as care leavers.
However, new figures obtained by the commissioner's office show just 220,000 laptops were delivered by August despite 540,000 children being eligible for the scheme. These figures mean that just 37 per cent of eligible children could benefit from the scheme.
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