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, ...