Telecommunications: Huawei

(asked on 16th July 2020) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the statement by President of the United States that he influenced them to remove Huawei from the UK’s telecommunications infrastructure.


Answered by
Baroness Barran Portrait
Baroness Barran
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 29th July 2020

The Government’s decision on the status of Huawei in the UK’s 5G network was in response to the consequences of the US sanctions against Huawei and was based on the independent, technical and evidence-based advice of the National Cyber Security Centre.

The Government has previously stated that it is our ambition that no one should need to use a high risk vendor for 5G at all. To achieve this, we have taken decisive action to commit to a timetable for the removal of Huawei 5G equipment from our 5G network by 2027.

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