Question follow-through · 103344
Mobile Phones: East Grinstead and Uckfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that mobile operators improve signal reliability in rural and semi rural areas of East Grinstead and Uckfield constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that mobile operators improve signal reliability in rural and semi rural areas of East Grinstead and Uckfield constituency.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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14 Jan 2026
Answer published
Our ambition is for all populated areas to have access to higher quality standalone 5G by 2030. This ambition includes villages and rural communities as well as towns and cities.Standalone 5G is a more reliable, secure, generation of technology which has ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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