§ Mr. Albert Robertsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his present estimate of the extent of television licence evasion; and what this amounts to in lost revenue.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesEstimates of television licence evasion are of necessity imprecise and are subject to considerable error. The latest estimate of evasion is of the order of 1 million licences and the loss in revenue is probably about £15 million a year.
A joint working party of the Home Office, Post Office and British Broadcasting Corporation on the administration of the brodacast recieving licence system is carefully reviewing these figures with a view to initiating an intensive campaign against licence evasion this year.