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Mobile Phones: Infrastructure

Commons · Question 80708 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Rebecca Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code reform on rent revenues earned by church properties hosting mobile communications infrast

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 22 Oct 2025

No specific assessment has been made on the impact of the 2017 reforms on church properties. In the impact assessment produced in 2016 to accompany the 2017 reforms, it was anticipated that there would be a reduction in rents from operators to landowners ...