02089564065

Owen Charles, form the Parliamentary Office', selling space in the 'parliamentary year book' for 'excellence in Healthcare'. Appeared very genuine and plausible until requested £2500 for a page of advertising.

Useless time wasters-ask for your directors-surely do some research before they ring you-may mislead and try and get sensitive information to try and steal your money-jobless crooks-need to get a decent life.
If they ring ask them put them on hold for ever...waste their call time and hang up..or ask them to ring back on a weekend and keep them on hold all day-annoying crooks.

Rep from Parliamentary infomration Office left me his name and number to call back on.
He politely launched into his pre-written speech, mentioning lots of MPs names and technical-sounding jargon.
I stopped him and told him that we were not interested in any advertising and our representation to Parliament was already taken care of.

He was quite polite. If I had not come across this approach many times before, I might have been taken in!

Mr Danvers called back again so I informed him that my Director had dealt with the Paliamentary Information in the past and had no wish to do so again.

He then went on for a further five mins about how disappointed he was as he was dealing with things at such a high level and could I stress to my Director who important an opportunity this was etc.

I continued to say nothing and we eventually finished the call.  Have heard nothing since - but I shan't hold my breath!

They're pushing the 'excellence in housing' at the mo. No one's ever seen a copy, although I believe a small number exist.

On another site like this, there are some interesting comments about disqualified directors etc.

Tips
1. Don't give him direct phone line.
2. Warn your switchboard to block his attempts.
3. Warn other staff not to engage.
4. You can do this while he's burbling away, offer to transfer him to your chief exec, then leave on hold for ever. Job done.

This is misleading selling of directory space.  They falsely present themselves as acting in an official capacity, creating the impression that they're acting on behalf of a government department - in our case they even referred to a government minister, Jim Knight at Department for Work & Pensions.  Clearly the guy I spoke to had self-briefed from public sources - government web-sites I guess - to lend his pitch a degree of plausibility.  But clearly a scam.

"Robert Clarke" left a message for a director about a new government initiative on green business and sustainability in the UK. Sounded like a scam, and I checked this site, which confirmed it. Couldn't resist calling him back (had to wait until I could be put through to "Robert"... I guess they take it in turns) to see whether he'd heard of this site. He hadn't. I told him to look it up, and put in his number. He very quickly rang off. Funny that!

Thank goodness I Googled the Parliamentary Information Office!  I too have had a call from a Robert Clark, but the number he quoted was 0208 956 4087.  He asked for the name of our MD, which is always suspicious.  Not a pushy type (as yet), but, thankfully having read the above I won't be passing his details to our MD.  As some of you already say, there is just something in their tone that tells you that it isn't genuine call - but I think this is only evident to the experienced-had it been a junior taking the call then they would certainly have been intimidated by this caller and possibly put the call through.  Thank you all!

Just had the 'Parliamentary Information Office' on the phone trying to speak to our Director re. training survey acting on behalf of the Government.  Rude and very pushy saleswoman, when pushed about which Government department they just became ruder.  Called back and Receptionist claimed that she was 'just a receptionist' and they work for the 'whole of Government'.  Having read all of this, no way they'll get through and next time I'll report them to Trading Standards.

Man called John Watson called, ostensibly from this same company, trying to sell editorial space in Excellence in Regeneration publication. Google is a saviour, as is this place. Will not be passing on the message to my MD!

Received a message from Mr. Richard Price to inform us that they are interested in urban initiative, regeneration and cutting edge design… it does sound great business opportunity… too good to be true as always. i check the telephone number… new one but the motto "Parliamentary Information Office of London" leads me to here.

Thank you for the website, I don't have to spend more time on this!

These guys also use 02089564041

Robert Clark form the "Parliamentary Information Office" contacted us to discuss Government initiatives on the environment & sustainability.

He's called twice today and I swear it was a different guy both times.

David Edwards called our office this afternoon asking to speak our Strategic Director (on first name terms) regarding a "Government Initiative".  As previous comments have stated - you can spot them a mile off with the exceedingly (almost royal) posh accent which soon slips as the conversation moves on.  I usually ask them to drop me an e-mail giving background info about what they want to speak to him about - they always use some lame excuse like the issue has been embargoed or due to political sensitivity etc etc (this is a dead give-away). The 'gentleman' was so persistent I tried to extract more information from him and in doing so commented that he sounded like he was in a call centre - he replied that they'd currently got the builders in!!  Poor Bob - having to listen to that posh pushy lot all afternoon!  To that end David Edwards seemed to move hastily on to his next victim!

David Castle writing a governnment report on Environmental Excellence (dropped in Ed Milliband's name).  As if he's going to get through me to reach our MD!!

Caller said he was from the Parliamentary Information Office, working on a new Government initiative on sustainability, needed to speak to our MD. When we pressed he said this was aprivate company. After we said we were required to filter calls, his voice went from strangulated upper civil servant to estuary and he rang off.

They have a variety of similar phone numbers, see also:
02089564000 (https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02089564000)
02089564041 (https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02089564041)

What a pathetic scam...Please dont be fooled. They should try employing some good sales people.

Robert Clark calling on 0208 956 4041

very rude, obnoxious man.  Give him as good as you get!

Had a call from John Edwards this morning - claiming to be a parliamentary information officer wanting to talk to me urgently about a Government initiative.  Luckily, I googled, as I have to with so many calls these days!

Call from David Castle - much along the same lines as the other comments here. Nice this time, but previous experience tells me he will get nastier as his calls aren't returned. Wouldn't a Parliamentary service be in the 0207 area of London, rather than 0208?