Reverse Phone Look Up Information for the UK

In the UK reverse telephone directory information is not publicly available. In the Channel Islands it is provided in the printed telephone directories.

Reverse telephone directories are available to the emergency services and used by law enforcement agencies in order to determine the origin of any request for assistance.

These systems include both publicly accessible and privately listed (ex-directory) services. As such, these directories are restricted to internal use only.

This information is treated as 'communication data' in the RIPA regime and subject to the same controls as requests for lists of and content of calls.