Question follow-through · 10203
Mobile Phones: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department has taken to help reduce mobile phone roaming fees for people travelling in Europe since the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department has taken to help reduce mobile phone roaming fees for people travelling in Europe since the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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29 Oct 2024
Answer published
The guarantee of surcharge-free roaming with the EU ceased at the end of the Brexit Transition Period. Against this background, my Department, in close coordination with the Department for Business and Trade, is considering the Government’s approach to th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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