Written questions

Mobile Broadband: Rural Areas

Commons · Question 57159 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 11 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Stafford

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

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 11 Jun 2025

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, ...