HC Deb 23 May 1989 vol 153 c497W
Mr. Lewis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports the police received of obscene telephone calls; and how many prosecutions in relation to obscene telephone calls were brought under section 43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 in each of the years 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988.

Mr. John Patten

Information is not available centrally on the number of reports that the police receive of obscene telephone calls or for prosecutions under section 43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984. Such prosecutions are classified with other offences under this act and therefore cannot be separately identified.