§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints about interference to essential services by citizens band radio on 27 MHz AM he has received in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
§ Mr. RaisonSuch complaints are received by the Post Office radio interference service, which acts as our agents in this matter. In the period from 1 September to 31 December 1980 it received 111 complaints of interference to the radio communications of essential services from the illicit use of citizens band radio operating in the 27 MHz band. Since 1 January these statistics have been collected on a monthly basis and the equivalent figures for January and February are 16 and 31 respectively.