Question follow-through · 4999
Telephone Services: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help improve the ability of telecommunications providers to (a) identify and (b) block scam calls.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help improve the ability of telecommunications providers to (a) identify and (b) block scam calls.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
Tackling fraud is a priority for this Government. We are working closely with industry, law enforcement, and consumer groups to identify and prosecute criminal activity of this nature. On 5 November 2025, Government published the second Telecommunications...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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