§ Mr. Andrew Bowdenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of 5p concessionary television licences issued in the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of those licences are held by pensioners.
§ Mr. Renton[pursuant to his reply, 9 July 1987, c. 212]: I am afraid that while the figure given in my earlier reply was believed to be correct at the time, a subsequent retotalling of the manually maintained records of licensees by the National TV Licence Records Office—carried out for another purpose—has shown the correct figure for those benefiting from accommodation for residential care licences to the end of May 1987 to be 705,257, rather than the figure of 690,629 given.