Department for Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered on 27 April 2017.
Jonathan Lord
Conservative, Woking
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints concerning nuisance calls have been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in each of the last seven years.
Matthew Hancock
Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Digital Policy)
The table below displays the number of complaints about nuisance calls and text messages received by the ICO since 2010:
Live calls | Automated calls | SMS spam | Total | |
2010/11 | 1706 | 1745 | 618 | 4069 |
2011/12 | 1685 | 3680 | 3068 | 8451 |
2012/13 | 31662 | 82803 | 41036 | 155501 |
2013/14 | 56269 | 74024 | 30139 | 160432 |
2014/15 | 75082 | 80188 | 23680 | 178950 |
2015/16 | 70252 | 71425 | 17869 | 159546 |
2016/17 | 65691 | 82011 | 18397 | 166099 |
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