<p>The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) 2003 prevents nuisance marketing calls being made from within the UK and also from outside the UK on behalf of UK companies. Callers are legally required to ensure they do not call a number that is Telephone Preference Service (TPS) registered, or if they have previously been notified by the caller not to make further calls. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) considers complaints about breaches of the PECR and can issue a monetary penalty of up to £500,000 to callers who wilfully or negligently breach the regulations. In addition, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) under the Communications Act 2003 covers silent and abandoned calls through their persistent misuse powers. This includes calls that originate from outside the UK made on behalf of UK companies and Ofcom can issue a monetary penalty of up to £2 million to company for a breach of its persistent misuse rules covering silent and abandoned calls. Marketing calls made from outside of the UK on behalf of non-UK companies are outside of the UK's jurisdiction. As part of the strategy paper published in July</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/connectivity-content-and-consumers-britains-digital-platform-for-growth</p><p>my Department has committed to consider further measures to enable improved enforcement action against nuisance calls. This includes legislating to allow sharing of information between Ofcom and ICO and consideration of measures to lower the legal threshold to allow ICO to issue more monetary penalties. Further thinking will be set out in an action plan in the autumn.</p>