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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made on constructing mobile masts under the Mobile Infrastructure Project.

Through the Mobile Infrastructure Project the Government is investing up to £150 million to improve coverage in areas with no coverage for voice calls or text messages. The project aims to address coverage in the final 0.3-0.4% of the population without basic coverage, and increase 3G and 4G coverage across sites within the network.

I am pleased to announce our strong progress with identifying suitable sites and we are working towards confirming network connections, and acquiring sites and planning permissions.