Question follow-through · 3003
Voice over Internet Protocol: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential financial impact on residents of privately-managed leasehold retirement housing of the requirement to upgrade communal telecare
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential financial impact on residents of privately-managed leasehold retirement housing of the requirement to upgrade communal telecare
21 May 2026
Target answer date
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26 May 2026
Answer published
Switching a landline from the analogue Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) should not increase costs for the end customer.However, independent businesses, including privately managed retirement housing w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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