Nuisance Calls: Complaints
(asked on 25th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints concerning nuisance calls have been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in each of the last seven years.
This question was answered on 27th April 2017
The table below displays the number of complaints about nuisance calls and text messages received by the ICO since 2010:
Financial Year | Live calls | Automated calls | SMS spam | Total |
2010/11 | 1706 | 1745 | 618 | 4069 |
2011/12 | 1685 | 3680 | 3068 | 8451 |
2012/13 | 31662 | 82803 | 41036 | 155501 |
2013/14 | 56269 | 74024 | 30139 | 160432 |
2014/15 | 75082 | 80188 | 23680 | 178950 |
2015/16 | 70252 | 71425 | 17869 | 159546 |
2016/17 | 65691 | 82011 | 18397 | 166099 |