HC Deb 16 April 1975 vol 890 c120W
Mr. Corbett

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the annual estimated cost in the last two financial years of the reduced television licence for the blind; and how many people qualified.

Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

The cost of the £1.25 concessionary reduction for television licences for registered blind people was as follows: 1972–73, £47,312 for 37,850 beneficiaries; 1973–74, £47,629 for 38,103 beneficiaries.