Question follow-through · 1993
Shared Rural Network: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the value for money of the Shared Rural Network.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 26 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2024 · 38 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the value for money of the Shared Rural Network.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2024
Answer published
To deliver the Shared Rural Network, the UK’s four mobile network operators are investing £532m to eliminate the majority of ‘partial not-spots’ – areas which receive coverage from at least one, but not all, operators. The programme has already delivered ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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