Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57159

Mobile Broadband: Rural Areas

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

ConservativeFarnham and Bordon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of poor mobile signal on police capacity to (a) respond to and (b) manage rural crime.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
This Government is committed to reducing crime in rural areas. Our Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee will deliver 13,000 more neighbourhood police by the end of the Parliament, whilst also ensuring each community, including rural communities, has a named, ...

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