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Communications Act 2003 (Maximum Penalty for Persistent Misuse of Network or Service) Order 2006

If the calls were generated by the same kind of processes that developed the silent calls, clearly they would be covered, but I think that that would tend not to be the case and that they would be largely ad hoc individual calls. Although Ofcom has powers to terminate that sort of nuisance call, the processes involving caller identification numbers and so on would clearly have no application. Even if Ofcom sought to impose sanctions on individuals, one can see that that would be unlikely to be very helpful. Obviously, such misuse of the system is something that Ofcom is concerned about and it has jurisdiction and penalties to deal with the problem. I hope that I have dealt with all the issues raised and commend the order to the Committee. On Question, Motion agreed to.