Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 23 June 2026Answered: 29 June 2026

Asked by

Tom Rutland

LabourEast Worthing and Shoreham

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Data Protection and Telecoms (Chris Bryant)

The most recent statistics, which are available for the old shape of the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, suggest that 97% of properties there have 4G connection. However, I am not sure that the statistics reflect the lived experience of most people in his constituency—or, I suspect, any other constituency in the land. That is not good enough, which is why our ambition is for all populated areas to have stand-alone 5G by 2030.