HC Deb 15 March 2004 vol 419 cc57-8W
Mr. Carmichael

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate her Department has made of the number of households who do not own a television in(a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland. [160703]

Estelle Morris

The information requested is not available since TV Licensing, who administer the television licensing system for the BBC, do not maintain statistics on television ownership in the individual nations of the United Kingdom. However, in the UK as a whole, an estimated 2 per cent. of households do not have a television set.