HC Deb 04 November 2003 vol 412 cc538-9W
Mr. Peter Duncan

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was paid in television licence fees by residents of Dumfries and Galloway in the last year for which figures are available. [135254]

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was paid in TV licence fees by residents of Chorley parliamentary constituency in each of the last five years. [135522]

Estelle Morris

The information requested is not available, since TV Licensing, who administer the television licensing system for the BBC, do not maintain statistics of television licence sales and revenues by locality.

Mr. Peter Duncan

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what percentage of television licence fee holders in(a) Dumfries and Galloway, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK are able to receive (i) all five terrestrial television channels and (ii) Freeview. [135260]

Estelle Morris

The ITC and BBC advise that the available estimates of terrestrial television coverage are as follows:

UK households Scotland households
Analogue BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 99.4 98.1
Analogue Five 80 1
Freeview digital terrestrial television (all multiplexes) 73.1 80.5
1 Estimate not available

Further details of Five analogue terrestrial television coverage can be found at the website: www.five.tv and details of digital terrestrial television coverage at: www. dtg.org.uk and www.freeview.co.uk

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