asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the outcome of the recent investigation into citizens band radio abuse in Southampton.

My Department's radio investigation service has a routine and continuous programme of enforcement action against CB and other radio users who cause radio interference and evade licence requirements. However in May RIS staff carried out a concentrated campaign to counter CB licence evasion and abuse in the Southampton and Portsmouth areas. During the campaign they visited 307 households in these areas, some more than once. They issued warnings to 87 CB users in connection with licence evasion and licence abuse. Most of those warned took measures to conect their position. The RIS also interviewed 25 users and seized their CB equipment for the purpose of possible court proceedings. The full results of the campaign will emerge and be monitored over the next few months. This was one of a number of concentrated CB campaigns carried out by the RIS at this time.