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Deidre Brock

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Motability
Thursday 8th February 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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My hon. Friend is dead right.

Deidre Brock Portrait Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP)
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A recent witness at the Scottish Affairs Committee described the Government’s mobile infrastructure project as a disaster. What are the UK Government doing to address that failure?

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We had a commitment to reach 90% of the UK landmass with mobile coverage by the end of last year. Ofcom is assessing whether that has been met. We now have a commitment to get it up to 95%. We are doing that largely through a commercial roll-out. There is no doubt that mobile phone coverage is going up. It is just a question whether it is going up fast enough.

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