questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of hoax calls to the emergency services.
answerText: Making a hoax phone call to the emergency services is a criminal offence. All calls to the emergency services are recorded and the number can be traced, even if withheld. Local services regularly remind the public of the serious consequences of hoax calls...
heading: Emergency Services: Hoaxes and False Alarms