HC Deb 09 June 2000 vol 351 cc396-7W
Ms McCafferty

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what compensation arrangements apply to television licence holders who are unable to receive broadcasts as a result of transmitter failures. [124738]

Janet Anderson

The television licence fee is a payment for permission to install or use television to receive television programme services and not for a service provided. There is therefore no entitlement to compensation, nor, while a TV remains installed, to refunds of television licence fees in eases of transmitter failures.