Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 15 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what representations he has received on nuisance and repeat sales calls to commercial numbers; whether he plans to take steps to prohibit such calls; and if he will make a statement.
No representations have been received on this particular issue. Safeguards are already in place through the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR), which provides protection to commercial numbers. Unsolicited marketing calls are not allowed to be made to a number that is registered with the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS) scheme. The CTPS scheme was introduced in 2004 and to date about 1.8 million numbers are registered with them. Further detailed information about the CTPS can be found using the link:
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