§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the(a) number and (b) total cost of television licences paid for by his Department. [48364]
§ Mr. LeslieThe Cabinet Office holds a multiple form licence covering its core central London buildings and a concessionary licence covering a large number of televisions located, at the Centre for Management and Policy Studies' Residential Training Centre in Sunningdale (Berkshire). The cost of these two television licences amounted to £6,867 in 2001–02.
In addition 16 individual television licences are held by other parts of the Cabinet Office at a cost in 2001–02 of £1,717.