Departmental Telephone Services Rob Marris To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many 0845 or similar cost telephone numbers are used by (a) his Department and (b) related departmental bodies for public access to services. Angela Eagle The following table lists the number of 0845 telephone numbers in use, together with an estimate of the number of these which are used for public facing services as at 17 January 2008. It is not possible to provide information on “similar cost” numbers as call charges are based on the tariff arrangements that customers have with their service provider and the device they use for the call and the location from which they call, and these data are not available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Name |Number of 0845 numbers used|Number relating to public facing services| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Debt Management Office |126 |18 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Government Actuary's Department |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HM Revenue and Customs |977 |135 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HM Treasury |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National Savings and Investments|8 |8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office of Government Commerce |1 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office for National Statistics |22 |22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Royal Mint |85 |85 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Valuation Office Agency |3 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |1,222 |1271 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Estimated | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------