Question follow-through · 11322
Telephones: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help tackle fraudulent phone calls.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help tackle fraudulent phone calls.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government takes fraud seriously. DSIT works closely with the Home Office, who are responsible for fraud policy, as well as Ofcom who have duty to ensure that UK numbers are not misused, to ensure telecoms companies are doing all they can to prevent c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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