The figures are for one week in 2017 and show the huge volumes of nuisance calls happening.

BT has analysed the data from its call protect service, that lets people block nuisance callers, to generate these statistics.

Number	Categories	Volume	Proportion
1	Accident claims	12,211,599	41%
2	Personal details (Scam)	5,439,781	18.50%
3	PPI	1,892,479	6.40%
4	Computer scam	3,593,103	12.60%
5	Debt collection	2,212,713	7.50%
	Other	4,131,102	14%
	Total	29,480,477