Television Licences (Hansard, 13 February 1991)

§ Mr. Bellotti
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to provide for the issue of refunds for unexpired television licences where the person to whom the licence was issued has died and more than one month remains valid on the licence.

§ Mr. Peter Lloyd
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§ Mr. Wallace
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the estimated cost of the concessions of the reduced television licence for registered blind people;
(2) whether he has any proposals to extend the reduced cost television licence currently available to registered blind people to those who are registered as partially sighted.

§ Mr. Peter Lloyd
The cost of the concession in 1989–90 in terms of revenue forgone was £47,500. The concession is available to people so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential. There are no plans to change that criterion.