§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the methods employed by her Department to calculate the take up of(a) digital terrestrial, (b) digital satellite and (c) digital cable in the United Kingdom. [48374]
§ Dr. Howells[holding answer Wednesday 10 April 2002]: My Department mainly uses information on subscriber figures from platform operators to give an indication of the take up figures of digital pay television for different platforms.
517WThe Office for National Statistics' omnibus survey has recently included a question which asks how households in Great Britain access digital television, which will enable us to assess take-up across individual platforms. We expect that this will give a more accurate figure in the light of increasing numbers of non-subscription digital viewers.