Today during Prime Minister’s Questions – a weekly session where MPs can ask Gordon Brown questions on any subject - Tom Watson MP raised the issue of Mobile Termination Rates.

Mr Watson asked if the Prime Minister was aware that a petition with over 114,000 signatures had been handed into Ofcom today calling for a dramatic reduction in MTRs and that 258 MPs had signed the Early Day Motion supporting the Terminate the Rate campaign.

Noting the support of Unite, the GMB, the Royal College of Nurses, 3 and BT for the campaign to Terminate the Rate, the Prime Minister responded that termination rates were ‘very high indeed’, that it is ‘right that the consumer gets a better deal’ and that Ofcom were currently reviewing pricing levels.

You can hear exactly what was said by Mr Watson and Prime Minister Brown at the Prime Minister’s Questions site on the 23 minute 10 second mark.