HC Deb 11 February 1965 vol 706 c133W
Mr. Godman Irvine

asked the Postmaster-General if he will state his reasons for refusing to exempt from the requirement to purchase a licence those who obtained receivers incapable of receiving British Broadcasting Corporation programmes.

Mr. Joseph Slater

Successive Governments have for many years maintained the principle, currently embodied in the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949, that if a broadcast receiving set is installed or used at all a licence must be held.