To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 5 December 1991, Official Report, column 205, if he will list those organisations which have expressed concern about the time allowed for the 1994 changes in national telephone codes.

The Director General of Telecommunications, who is responsible for numbering, has not taken a final decision on the transitional period for implementation of the national code change in 1994. I have asked the Director General to write to the hon. Member giving further information concerning the transitional arrangements and any representations he may have received.