§ Mr. Cormackasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what would be the loss of revenue to the BBC if retirement pensioners living alone or with their spouses were not subject to the recent increase in television licence fees.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe information on which to make such an estimate is not readily available but if the television licence fees were to remain at £34 for colour and £12 for monochrome for households of one or two276W pensioners but were at the new higher figures for other households containing a pensioner, the loss of licence fee revenue would be some £35 million to £40 million a year.