Question follow-through · 37275
Mobile Phones: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help increase mobile phone coverage.
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
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help increase mobile phone coverage.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government wants all areas of the UK to benefit from reliable and good quality mobile coverage.4G geographic coverage from at least one mobile operator has now reached over 95% of the UK landmass through the Shared Rural Network. The programme is cont...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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