HC Deb 31 January 2002 vol 379 cc541-2W
Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many prosecution statements were taken in relation to television licence fee evasion and how many prosecutions there were for television licence evasion in each of the last four years. [27691]

Dr. Howells

The number of prosecution statements taken and prosecutions heard for television licence fee evasion in the United Kingdom in the last four years was:

Thousand
Year Prosecution statements taken Prosecutions heard
1998–99 374 98
1999–2000 320 89
2000–01 366 151
2001–021 268 104
1 To December 2001

Dr. Howells

No information is held centrally on the number of buildings of special architectural or historic interest on the statutory list broken down by county or parliamentary constituency. The statutory list for the five districts of Buckinghamshire, including Aylsebury Vale (the area of the former borough of Buckingham), is available for inspection at my Department, at the National Monuments Record Library, and at each of the relevant local authorities.

The following table shows the grants which English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund have allocated to Buckinghamshire in each of the last five years for the conservation of listed buildings in that county.