Emergency Services: Mobile Radios

(asked on 11th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding under the Emergency Services Mobile Communications programme the Government plans to spend on Emergency Area Service masts that can be shared by all operators to improve rural mobile coverage.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 19th July 2017

The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme is forecast to spend £71.1m of investment costs, and £135.7m of operating costs, on providing additional rural coverage as part of its Extended Area Service for the 15 year life of the business case.

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