§ Mr. Dixonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many concessionary television licences have been withdrawn from retirement pensioners living in South Tyneside since the Television Licence Records Office decided that only retirement pensioners living in specially built accommodation for the elderly would qualify.
§ Mr. RaisonSeven thousand, five hundred and seventy-four retirement pensioners living in the South Tyneside area, whose accommodation does not fulfil—and never has fulfilled—the conditions of 119W eligibility for the special old persons' home television licence—as laid down in the relevant regulations under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949—will require an ordinary television licence on the expiry of their special licences after 1 August 1982.