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Telecommunications: Infrastructure

Commons · Question 90487 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 21 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department holds information on the average rental income for telecommunication providers (a) before and (b) after the Electronic Communications Code 2017 was implemented.

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 21 Nov 2025

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 but that it would be difficult to precisely predict the effect of the reforms on rental payme...