Question follow-through · 43570
Broadband: Power Failures
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofcom on increasing the four-hour minimum time requirement for power backup during power outages in the broadband phone network.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had recent discussions with Ofcom on increasing the four-hour minimum time requirement for power backup during power outages in the broadband phone network.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Communication providers have statutory responsibilities to take appropriate and proportionate steps to provide resilient networks and services. Ofcom published guidance in September 2024 on the measures that providers can take to meet those responsibiliti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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