§ Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will make it his policy to introduce a special concessionary television licence for all chronically sick persons, including those who do not live in residential nursing homes and similar sheltered housing schemes.
§ Mr. BrookeNo. As the Government have repeatedly stated, they have no plans to extend the scope of the existing concessionary television licence scheme, under which concessionary licences are available only to retirement pensioners and disabled people living in residential homes or in comparable sheltered housing schemes.