§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will arrange for concessionary television licences to be available to households consisting of registered blind adults; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. BrookeA television licence is not required where broadcast television signals are received in sound only through a specially adapted monitor such as that supplied by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. A reduction of £1–25 on the cost of a television licence was instituted in 1971 when radio licences were abolished and is available to all registered blind people not resident in a public or charitable institution or in a school.