Written Question·Home Office·UIN 17250

Emergency Services Network: Outages

Tabled: 8 July 2026

Answered: 20 July 2026

Question

David Reed

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contingency arrangements are in place to maintain police communications in the event of a failure of the Emergency Services Network or wider telecommunications infrastructure.

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Emergency Services Network (ESN) is designed as a mission-critical communications service, with resilience built into its end-to-end architecture, governance and operational arrangements. It will provide police and other emergency services with priori...

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