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Departmental Telephone Services

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what use (a) his Department and (b) service providers under contract to his Department make of (i) 0844 and 0845 telephone numbers and (ii) revenue-sharing telephone numbers for calls from members of the publhic; for which services such numbers are used; what prefixes are used for revenue-sharing numbers; how much revenue has accrued from revenue- sharing numbers in each of the last five years; what consideration his Department has given to introducing 03-prefixed telephone numbers for calls to all such services; and if he will make a statement. [247349] [Official Report, 26 January 2009, Vol. 487, c. 4-5W.] Letter of correction from Mr. Hoon: An error has been identified in the final paragraph of a written answer given to the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) on 26 January 2009 regarding the use of 0300 numbers. The final paragraph should have read: ““Consideration is currently being given to switching to 0300 numbers for the Freight Best Practice helpline and for the Highways Agency Information Line. DVLA has also been considering moving to 0300 numbers and some preparatory work has already been undertaken.””