Rejected petition Ban automated phone calls to land lines

Are you sick of answering your phone only to find it's a recorded message even though your number is ex directory? Does anyone actually listen to them?

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What about disabled and elderly people that struggle to reach the phone to find it is an unsolicited prerecorded sales pitch? These calls are an invasion of privacy and a nuisance and need to be stopped by law.

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Why was this petition rejected?

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

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/163085

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Date submitted 11 November 2016
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