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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2025

Debate

Mobile Phone and Broadband Prices

Contribution

My Lords, the noble Baroness will be aware that the 5% hardest to reach in rural areas are being further disadvantaged by the taking out of landlines. Storm Arwen took all the landlines and mobile phones out over a large area of the north-east and north Yorkshire for nine days. People must be able safely to summon help in an emergency. That will not happen if these landlines are taken out.

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