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Written Question
Charities: Coronavirus
Thursday 18th March 2021

Asked by: Sarah Atherton (Conservative - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to support charities during the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Matt Warman

The Government has provided a multi-billion-pound package of Covid-19 support which charities and civil society organisations have been able to access to help them continue their vital work.

Charities are benefiting from the extension of unprecedented cross-economy support including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans and £4.6 billion in lockdown grants for closed premises.

In addition, charities, social enterprises and other voluntary sector organisations have received a £750 million targeted support package and £150 million unlocked from dormant bank and building society accounts.


Written Question
Mobile Phones: Rural Areas
Monday 27th April 2020

Asked by: Sarah Atherton (Conservative - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

What progress his Department has made on delivering the Shared Rural Network.

Answered by Matt Warman

The Government announced on 9 March that it had agreed a £1 billion deal with the mobile network operators to deliver the Shared Rural Network. This will see operators collectively increase mobile phone coverage throughout the UK to 95% by end-2025, underpinned by legally binding coverage commitments. The site deployment plans will be managed by the operators themselves to best deliver the agreed coverage outcomes by the licence obligation enforcement date.