Improving Mobile Phone Coverage in Mid Wales

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:53 pm on 27 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 1:53, 27 November 2018

Yes. What I actually said, if you remember, was that it was very important that we make sure that what we recommend in Wales is fit for purpose in Wales, particularly in our very beautiful national parks. We wanted very much to ensure that the people of Wales are very happy with what we were proposing by way of infrastructure. Russell George, you and I have had these conversations very frequently over the last several years. We will be shortly publishing a new 'Planning Policy Wales'; that will set out some different permitted development rights, as you said. There are a number of other things that we're still talking about inside the mobile action plan around the way that that infrastructure is deployed, and I won't rehearse them here, because the Llywydd will start tapping her fingers on the desk. But there are a large number of things in contemplation there, a suite of which we hope will help. But, in the end, this is not devolved to Wales. In the end, what we need is action from the UK Government to—