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DVLA IS MAKING MILLIONS OUT OF COMPLAINTS CALLS

Swansea's Dvla has come top of a list of shame for over-charging people who telephone it to complain.Research carried out by Which? consumer magazine found that the DVLA made £3.4 million from its 0870 number in the past financial year.

Swansea's Dvla has come top of a list of shame for over-charging people who telephone it to complain.Research carried out by Which? consumer magazine found that the DVLA made £3.4 million from its 0870 number in the past financial year.

It was one of the companies that left customers hanging on for the longest, with an average waiting time of three minutes and 16 seconds.

The magazine says the Morriston-based Government agency plans to switch its helplines and technical support to cheaper 03, 0800, or geographic numbers.

Neil Fowler, Editor of Which?, said: "Why should you pay for the privilege of making a complaint or getting a problem fixed?

"It's unacceptable that companies and Government agencies can make big money from people calling helplines.

"Check if there's a cheaper number or ask the company to refund the call cost - it's the least they can do if you're calling about a faulty product or bad service."

More than 30 organisations are listed in the magazine's Hall of Shame in its June edition, released today.

These include Tiscali, British Gas and Barclays, as well as Government agencies such as TV Licensing and DVLA.

They all use higher-charging 0871, 0870, 0844 or 0845 numbers for customer services or technical support line.

Organisations that use these numbers can share revenue from calls with their phone service provider, which means the longer the customer stays on the phone, the more money the organisation makes.

Ofcom introduced the new 03 numbers last year, which cost the same as calling an 01 or 02 number, and it plans to stop organisations making money from 0870 numbers.

A spokesman for the DVLA said it was aware of the Ofcom report and was moving to comply with the new 0300 guidelines.

He said: "I am sure you will appreciate that we cannot adopt any new number ranges until a definitive Ofcom paper is republished and we are clear on the full implications.

"With regard to refunding the cost of calls to inquirers, DVLA do not reimburse callers for the cost of telephoning the agency. I should explain that a large portion of calls to DVLA are for general information which is already freely available to members of the public from our website and information leaflets."

The spokesman added that the agency did not keep callers on hold to make more money.



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