HC Deb 16 March 2004 vol 419 cc191-2W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of television licence fee defaulters fell into each socio-economic category in the last year for which figures are available. [160685]

Estelle Morris

The table shows how, according to figures obtained from the BBC, evasion is spread across all socio-economic groups.

Percentage
UK Population TV Licence Evaders
Group Distribution by socio-economic group of chief income earner, according to National Readership Survey between July 2000 and June 2001 Distribution of socio-economic group of 1,108,787 who have evaded for up to two years
2003
AB 23.7 23.4
C1 27.7 27.2
C2 20.9 19.8
DE 27.7 29.6
2002
AB 23.8 22.4
C1 27.3 26.6
C2 21.2 20.3
DE 27.7 30.7