Current status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to replace Huawei equipment from the Scottish 5G network in line with the UK Government mandate that was published in July 2020.
Policy relating to cyber-security, like telecommunications more broadly, remains reserved to the UK Government. The removal of Huawei equipment from commercial mobile networks is the responsibility of mobile network operators and the Scottish Government is not sighted on their plans to meet the UK Government mandate.