HC Deb 21 November 1974 vol 881 cc465-6W
25. Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now take steps to enable all retirement pensioners who are householders to obtain broadcasting receiving licences at the same concessionary rate.

38. Mr. Radice

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now introduce cheap television licences for all retirement pensioners.

Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

No. The Government have given first priority to pension increases, and I am afraid it is not possible, for the present at least, to give a general television licence concession to pensioners.