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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households with a person aged 75 or over in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area were eligible for a free television licence in the last year for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households with a person aged 75 or over in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area were eligible for a free television licence in the last year for which data is available.
The information requested is not held.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will estimate the net savings to her Department in the event that the free TV licence for over 75s were to be withdrawn from those pensioners currently eligible to pay income tax at the (a) higher rate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will estimate the net savings to her Department in the event that the free TV licence for over 75s were to be withdrawn from those pensioners currently eligible to pay income tax at the (a) higher rate...
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
The following estimates are based on Department for Work and Pensions expenditure forecasts combined with information on the tax paid by older people from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Survey of Personal Incomes.
| AME
savings from withdrawing the free TV licence for those aged 75 and over
from different categories of tax payers,
UK | |
| £
million | |
| 2013-14 | |
| (a)
higher rate taxpayers
(40%) | 20 |
| (b)
additional rate taxpayers
(45%) | <5 |
| Total | 20 |
These estimates assume that the take-up of the free TV licence for those aged 75 and over is distributed equally across the tax bands. The figures are expressed in cash terms and rounded to the nearest £5 million.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of the free television licence for people aged over 75 there were in each year between 1997 and 2012.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of the free television licence for people aged over 75 there were in each year between 1997 and 2012.
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Benefit expenditure and caseload tables are published and can be found at:
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/index.php?page=expenditure
Table 1c of the medium-term forecast for all DWP benefits includes caseload information for Over 75 TV licences.
Figures for Over 75 TV licences include Northern Ireland and are therefore United Kingdom figures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions he has had with the BBC on future funding of free television licences for those over the age of 75 years; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions he has had with the BBC on future funding of free television licences for those over the age of 75 years; and if he will make a statement.