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172487

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	4G: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that mobile coverage up to 4G levels is provided in rural areas to ensure communication resilience in the event for lightning.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	220134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>It is for mobile network operators (MNOs) to plan their networks to provide the best service for their customers, including appropriate measures to provide resilience in a variety of scenarios.</p><p>The issue of mobile coverage is a key concern for Government and on December 17 Government announced a landmark deal that locks in £5bn of investment by MNOs and will deliver 90% geographic coverage from each mobile operator by 2017. The agreement will be made legally binding through amended licence conditions and will improve mobile coverage across the UK. Details of the agreement are available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-secures-landmark-deal-for-uk-mobile-phone-users" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-secures-landmark-deal-for-uk-mobile-phone-users</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 12/01/2015 10:47:38 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

172486

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Mobile Phones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to promote roaming and mast sharing in areas without comprehensive mobile telephone coverage on all networks.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	220123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>On December 17 Government announced a landmark deal that locks in £5bn of investment by MNOs and will deliver 90% geographic coverage from each mobile operator by 2017. The agreement will be made legally binding through amended licence conditions and will improve mobile coverage across the UK. This will halve partial not-spots (where some but not all mobile network operators provide coverage) and reduce complete not-spots by almost two-thirds.</p><p>Details of the agreement are available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-secures-landmark-deal-for-uk-mobile-phone-users" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-secures-landmark-deal-for-uk-mobile-phone-users</a>. It is now for MNOs to determine how best to deliver the agreed coverage improvements.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 12/01/2015 10:50:01 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

172626

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Independent Living Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability organisations which responded to his Department's consultation on the closure of the Independent Living Fund (a) supported and (b) opposed non-ring-fenced funding.
	tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
	tabling member printed	Graham Jones
	uin	220029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The consultation on the Future of the Independent Living Fund did not ask any specific questions in relation to the ring-fencing of future funding.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of the consultation responses is available in the Government’s response to the consultation published on GOV.UK <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/184115/future-of-ilf-response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/184115/future-of-ilf-response.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/01/2015 11:53:29 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones