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Power Failures: Rural Areas

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 151054, tabled on 31 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to improve communications on power failures on the low voltage network in the upland and wooded areas of the country with people living in those areas.

Answered on

25 April 2022

The Department is leading a review following Storm Arwen in 2021 into electricity network resilience during storm events. This includes identification of improvements to customer communications across Great Britain. Final recommendations will be published by the end of May.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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