3 December 2011
UK’s Office for National Statistics show 41.6 million of the UK’s adults use the internet, with disability, old age and low income making up the majority who have not yet used the internet,

Figures released by the UK’s Office for National Statistics show 41.6 million of the UK’s adults use the internet and 8.43 million have never used the internet.

83% of UK adults use the internet.

Disabled adults accounted for just over half of the 8.43 million adults who had never used the internet according to the research covering the period of April to September 2011.

Despite a relative boom in the number of adults aged 75 and over using the internet, 72.4% of this age group have still never gone online.

The figures show that income and disability remain a barrier to getting connected. Britons earning less than £300 a week make up 13.5% of the 8.43 million adults who have never used the internet. Every one of the 1.4 million adults earning over £1,000 a week said they have used the internet.

The research was taken from the quarterly Labour Force Survey and published by the ONS week ending 4th November 2011