Question follow-through · 30864
Fraud: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with telecommunications providers to help prevent fraud through (a) scam calls and (b) text messages.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with telecommunications providers to help prevent fraud through (a) scam calls and (b) text messages.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
This Government is working extremely closely with industry, regulators, law enforcement and consumer groups to close the vulnerabilities that criminals exploit in telecoms networks to stop scams reaching people. The Government and Industry are currently d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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