Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 26
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Department is confident of meeting 2025 targets despite needing better impact understanding.
Conclusion
The Department recognised that it needs to do more work to understand its impact on road coverage, and told us it is working with Ofcom and with the mobile network operators to improve the information available.50 Nevertheless, the Department told us that it is confident that, come December 2025, it will be able to assess whether it has met its premises and roads targets,51 and that, based on the data it has received from the mobile network operators to date, it expects to meet the target.52 41 Qq 43, 51 42 Q 49; C&AG’s Report, para 2.3 43 Q 11 44 Q 27; C&AG’s Report, para 2.6 45 Qq 49–50 46 Qq 27, 49–50 47 Qq 27, 28 48 Q 28 49 Q 19 50 Q 19 51 Qq 49–50 52 Q 28 16 Supporting mobile connectivity Mobile coverage on railways
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 11 July 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗