To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will list (a) the number of planning applications for telecommunications towers made by each of the telecommunications companies operating in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years and the current year to the latest available date, (b) the number of such towers erected by each such company in each year, (c) the number of such towers erected for which planning permission was not needed and (d) her estimate of the total number of such towers which will be needed by each company to complete their network. [12187]

I shall write to the hon. Gentleman as soon as possible.