Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 24 June 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the effect of fines imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office on reducing nuisance calls and texts.
No such assessment has been made, but we are aware that after ICO issued a large monetary penalty in November 2012 for spam text messages, the monitoring service Cloudmark reported a 10% drop in unsolicited spam SMS text messages. We remain keen to ensure robust enforcement of the regulations, so that companies breaking the rules are caught and penalised.
Our Nuisance Calls Action Plan, which was published on
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nuisance-calls-action-plan-unveiled
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