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Mobile Phones: Standards

Commons · Question 87971 · Tabled 4 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 25 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 25 Nov 2025

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...