Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 87971

Mobile Phones: Standards

Tabled: 4 November 2025

Answered: 25 November 2025

Named Day

Question

Joe Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Department is taking to improve mobile telephone signal in (a) Hexham constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) Newcastle, (d) the North East and (e) England.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

Communities and business across the country rightly expect to have the mobile connectivity they need to participate in the modern digital economy.Through the Shared Rural Network programme, there have already been improvements in 4G mobile coverage across...

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