News Reporting Of Telephone Chatline Services And The Director General Of Oftel
EDM number 230 in 1989-90, proposed by Terry Lewis on 18/12/1989.
That this House congratulates The Mail on Sunday for its brilliant expose of the sordid telephone chatline industry; notes that this investigation revealed telephone abuses already featured on the BBC Reportage programme in which the Director General of OFTEL took live part, that, as a consequence, he professed to understand the problems and undertook to introduce a Code of Practice by 8th December, which he claimed would have the effect of sanitising this whole sordid business; regrets, therefore, that his subsequent actions fell so far short of what is required and that abuse of the telephone service has continued unabated; and further notes that, in view of his failure to protect the public, the House now demands that the Director General of OFTEL suspend all such services or resign his position forthwith.
This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.
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