Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many and what proportion of her Department's public phone-lines charge members of the public to call.

The Department for Education, including the Government Equalities Office, operates nine principal public phone lines. Calls to five of these lines are charged as UK-wide (0370), geographic (020) or public body (0300) numbers. Four of these are free-phone (0800 or 0808) numbers, which do not incur a charge.