Question follow-through · 16801
Public Service Broadcasting
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department last conducted a resilience test of public service broadcasting infrastructure against the scenario of a national telecommunications network failure.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department last conducted a resilience test of public service broadcasting infrastructure against the scenario of a national telecommunications network failure.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Government understands how important it is that everyone can access information in times of national emergency. Television and radio both play an important role in providing such access in a range of different emergency scenarios, including scenarios ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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