Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services

(asked on 8th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to stop intermediaries using freephone numbers offered by her Department to generate income from claimants.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 15th March 2018

The Department for Work and Pensions has engaged with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to agree how to maximise the powers that Ofcom and the Phone-paid Services Authority discharge in relation to regulating paid for telephony services.

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