§ 86. Mr. Ness Edwardsasked the Assistant Postmaster-General if any estimate is available of the number of television sets sold to the public; and what it is in relation to the number of licences issued at the latest convenient date.
Mr. GammonsWe receive regular returns of television sets manufactured and estimates of the number in dealers'stocks, but the difference between these figures at a given date does not necessarily represent the number of sets actually sold up to that date; and we cannot therefore establish a direct statistical relationship as suggested by the right hon. Gentleman. The number of licences at 31st December was 2,957,000, an increase of 342,000 since 30th September last.