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Make it illegal to telecanvass any phone without prior written permission of the owner

Submitted on Sunday 7th August 2011

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it illegal to telecanvass any phone without prior written permission of the owner

Additional Information

Find more concrete ways to stop sales companies badgering people over the phone to buy products like double glazing or a new phone tariff. Make it illegal to talk sales to private households without previous written consent of the owner. Some of the worst companies routinely ignore the telephone preference service and phone the same people year after year.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

There is an existing e-petition about cold calling.

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