Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alun Cairns on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits and risks of commercial mobile networks providing the emergency services communications network.

James Brokenshire

The potential benefits and risks have been considered in detail as part of the
Outline Business Case, which recommended this direction of travel and was
approved by the emergency services, lead departments and the devolved
governments of Wales and Scotland during March 2014. These risks and issues
will be updated as the Full Business Case is developed during the procurement
phase, which was launched on 14 April 14.