§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can now give an estimate of the legal and other costs to public funds of the matter concerning overlapping television licences.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsAdministrative costs to date are about £72,000, and £98,340 has been refunded to those people who took out overlapping television licences but subsequently paid an additional amount. The costs in connection with claims arising following the announcement set out in my reply to the Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Mr. Graham) on 13th January—[Vol. 903, c.91]—cannot yet be estimated; nor have the legal costs in the case of Congreve versus the Home Office yet been settled.