§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will estimate the likely financial effect on the tourism industry in England of the decision to impose a new television licence arrangement for hotels.
§ Mr. Norman Lamont[pursuant to the reply, 16 May 1984, c. 188]: The following table gives examples of the annual costs of the new arrangements to various sizes of hotel offering colour television in guests' bedrooms and assuming a 50 per cent. occupancy rate the additional costs which might be passed on to the customer per night.
Hotels with television in £ Pence 15 rooms 46 0 50 rooms 368 3½ 100 rooms 828 4 500 rooms 4,508 5 1,000 rooms 9,108 5 There is no wholly comprehensive information on either the number of hotels in England or the number of television sets in hotel bedrooms. However, of those hotels registered with the English tourist board which provide television sets in all bedrooms 49 per cent. have 15 rooms or less and will therefore be unaffected by the new arrangements.