HC Deb 17 December 1973 vol 866 c230W
Mr. Sydney Chapman

asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what increase there would have to be in the charge of a telephone call to recover the revenue lost by the abolition of the rental charge.

Sir J. Eden

As charges for telephone calls vary with distance, duration and time of day, it is not possible to say by how much the charge for any particular call would increase, but taking 1972–73 as an example, call charges would have had to be increased overall by 61 per cent. if exchange line rental charges had been abolished.