Number of digital devices delivered to education providers by UK government 2020-2022
As of April 2022, the government of the United Kingdom has dispatched over 1.95 million laptop or tablet devices to local authorities or education providers in England in order to support remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. This scheme initially started to provide laptops and tablets to schools in May 2020 during the Summer term of the 2019/20 academic year and was expanded significantly at the start of 2021, increasing from 562 thousand in December 2020 to more than one million two months later in February 2021.
