I am astounded by the number of telephone switchboard operators that have no idea what you mean when being asked for a Geographical number.
Many will quite happily tell you that there is no other number other than the one the one that you have come through on!!!,you have actually just spent the last half hour searching for a number when our little saynoto0870.com Angel cannot provide one or you have been successful by other means.
The need to be even more devious than the companies/institutions that do not provide/publish them is really quite time consuming and often does not produce a result.
Many of these companies/institutions are kept afloat with our contributions to the treasury. That is especially so with HMRC,DWP and the Health Centres/Doctors Surgeries.
In this day & age of more and more people reverting to mobile phones,the making of simple and once "Bundled" calls is now an absolute minefield of potential exhorbitant expense and is only helping line the pockets of the mobile phone companies and the perpertrators of the exclusion of simple low cost telephone communications,the Geographical number.