Television Licences: Older People

(asked on 13th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households occupied by at least one person over 75 were in receipt of a free television licence by constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 9th October 2018

The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold data on the number of households in receipt of a free television license broken down by Parliamentary constituency.

The number of households in receipt of winter fuel payment (aged 75 and over) by Parliamentary constituency can be used as a proxy for television license (assuming those in receipt of winter fuel payment have a television) and can be found in the dataset ‘Households by Parliamentary constituency and age, Winter Fuel Payment, 2017 to 2018 via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-recipient-and-household-figures-2017-to-20178

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