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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The information held centrally on how many and what proportion
of (a) magistrates' courts, (b) County courts and (c) County Court money claims centres
use higher-rate telephone numbers is as follows:</p><p>(a) Magistrates' courts: 33
out of 330 courts</p><p>(b) County Courts: 17 out of 216 courts</p><p>(c) The County
Court Bulk Centre in Northampton which centrally</p><p>manages money claims, also
uses higher rate telephone numbers.</p><p>Some of the individual numbers are used
for more than one court.</p><p>As stated in previous answers to parliamentary questions,
the Department's approach is not to use 084 or 087 for non-geographic numbers and
instead, wherever possible, to assign 0300 numbers, for which the tariff is similar
to calling an 01 or 02 (geographic) number, whether the caller is using a fixed line
or a mobile phone —see: <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130423/text/130423w0004.htm#130423w0004.
htm_wqn27" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130423/text/130423w0004.htm#130423w0004.
htm_wqn27</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?ids2013-11-20a.175002.h&s=Vaz+0845#g175002.q0"
target="_blank">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?ids2013-11-20a.175002.h&s=Vaz+0845#g175002.q0</a></p><p>The
number of 08 numbers used by the department has fallen by 55% since December 2009.</p>
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