§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of(a) the number of premises with a television licence for (i) colour and (ii) black and white televisions where there is more than one receiver and (b) how many of these contain (A) one to 10, (B) 10 to 20, (C) 20 to 50 and (D) more than 50 sets; and if he will estimate the extra revenue gained by the BBC if each set required a licence. [65165]
§ Janet AndersonInformation is not held centrally on the numbers of television sets installed in non-domestic premises other than hotels, and even for hotels information is not held in the form requested. The available statistics on domestic television ownership show only the number of households without television, those with one set and those with more than one set, broken down into colour and black and white. Over 60 per cent. of households with colour television have more than one colour set; a further 7 per cent. of households with colour television have an additional black and white set and a similar proportion of households with only black and white television have more than one set. Charging all households with more than one television set an additional licence fee would raise an estimated £1,320 million in extra television licence fee revenue, assuming that levels of television ownership remained unchanged.