Companies who send texts or phone households could be fined up to 20% of their turnover

  • Move will come as a relief to millions bombarded every day
  • 120,310 complaints about calls between April and November last year
  • Culture Secretary Maria Miller said: 'Nuisance calls must stop'


The scourge of cold calling is facing its biggest ever crackdown under plans being drawn up by ministers. Companies that blitz households with telephone calls and spam text messages face heavy fines of up to 20 per cent their annual turnover. The move will come as a particular relief to millions who are bombarded every day with offers of Payment Protection Insurance compensation. provide bad service or waste time by making spurious and unsubstantiated claims' face stringent punishments. Currently nuisance calls must cause 'substantial stress' or 'substantial damage' for the Information Commissioner's Office to impose sanctions........Read more here

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