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Telecommunications: Infrastructure |
| Question ID: |
1812843 |
| UIN: |
60112 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5052 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Patrick Hurley
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Patrick Hurley
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what guidance his Department has issued to telecoms providers on (a) when they are required to use existing underground ducting before installing and (b) minimising the (i) visual and ( |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-24 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1446 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answer text: |
The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003 include requirements for operators to share apparatus where practicable, to use underground lines where reasonably practicable and to minimise the impact on the visual ameni... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |