Question follow-through · 907719
Telecommunications Cables
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of plans to replace the copper wire communications network.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of plans to replace the copper wire communications network.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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4 Feb 2026
Answer published
The modernisation of the UK’s telecoms networks is essential as the older networks are deteriorating and becoming unreliable. However, it is vital that customers are safely migrated off the old analogue Public Switched Telephone Network to modern digital ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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