HC Deb 09 May 1996 vol 277 c249W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there have been in each of the past 15 years related to abusive and threatening telephone calls; and if he will make a statement. [27565]

Mr. Maclean

It is not possible, from the information held centrally to identify offences relating to "the sending, by means of public telecommunicating system, a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" from other summary offences pertaining to the appropriate Acts.