Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what her Department's negotiating priorities will be on changes to the allocation of spectrum for broadcast services at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023.

The government has been working with Ofcom, who represent the UK at the World Radiocommunication Conferences, to reiterate our commitment to broadcast implied through the renewal of the digital terrestrial TV multiplex licences until 2034. The UK’s preference at this stage is for ‘no change’ to the international spectrum allocation to broadcast at the 2023 conference.

It is important to note that even in the eventuality that a change to the international radio spectrum regulations is made at this WRC, the UK would still have the ability to take its own decisions domestically.