A Minimum Digital Living Standard for UK Households in 2025: Full report
12/06/2025
First published June 2025
The Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) is a benchmark, developed with members of the public, for what households need to feel digitally included. Read the full report.
We now have a single MDLS, developed through a series of deliberative discussion groups with working-age and pension-age households, as well as households with children, in urban and rural areas. Grounded in people’s lives, MDLS helps us focus on the holistic nature of digital inclusion and how we can work together to achieve this.
