Question follow-through · 12746
Broadband: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to ensure that essential mobile connectivity is built into developments at the planning stage.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to ensure that essential mobile connectivity is built into developments at the planning stage.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2026
Answer published
In the 2025 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy, the Government committed to taking a ‘Digital First’ approach to new infrastructure projects. We recognise it is important that the future digital needs of the owners and users of infrastructure, such as roads,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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