Question follow-through · 17696
Great Western Railway: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of mobile signal coverage on GWR trains.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 4 Aug 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of mobile signal coverage on GWR trains.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Aug 2026
Answer published
The Department has not made a specific assessment of the adequacy of mobile signal coverage on Great Western Railway (GWR) services. However, the Department has secured funding to deploy low earth orbit satellite technology on mainline trains which will s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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