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Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Alan Brown

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Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions
Thursday 10th May 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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I did see the article, not least because my hon. Friend sent it to me via WhatsApp, and it is safe to say that I did not agree with all of it.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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The Scottish Government are having to invest £25 million to cover some of the mobile notspots, so rather than talking about future licensing requirements, when are the UK Government going to come up with cash to help with Scotland’s geography?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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A very significant proportion of the mobile masts that went up thanks to our UK taxpayer-funded emergency services network were in Scotland, and the drive for greater geographical mobile coverage will benefit Scotland disproportionately.

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