Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Terry Lewis (Labour), on Monday, 18 December 1989, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 34 members in total.

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News Reporting of Telephone Chatline Services and the Director General of OFTEL

That this House congratulates The Mail on Sunday for its brilliant expose of the sordid telephone chatline industry; notes that this investigation revealed telephone abuses already featured on the BBC Reportage programme in which the Director General of OFTEL took live part, that, as a consequence, he professed to understand the problems and undertook to introduce a Code of Practice by 8th December, which he claimed would have the effect of sanitising this whole sordid business; regrets, therefore, that his subsequent actions fell so far short of what is required and that abuse of the telephone service has continued unabated; and further notes that, in view of his failure to protect the public, the House now demands that the Director General of OFTEL suspend all such services or resign his position forthwith.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

230 

Session

1989-90

Subjects

Codes of practice Office of Telecommunications Telephone services The Mail on Sunday

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk