Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to tackle nuisance calls.

Tackling nuisance calls is a priority for the Government. Our commitment to tackle this problem was outlined in our Nuisance Calls Action Plan, which was published on 30 March 2014. Since publication, we have progressed legislative and non-legislative measures, including ensuring improved information sharing between regulators and lowering the legal threshold for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Currently we are encouraging and seeking more innovative and cost effective call blocking products and have launched a competition fund with Innovate UK to do this.