Accommodation For Residential Care Television Licence Scheme

EDM number 550 in 2002-03, proposed by Pete Wishart on 21/01/2003.

That this House notes the anomalies of the accommodation for residential care concessionary television licence scheme for people who live in sheltered housing complexes; recommends that the Government publish a timetable concerning their ongoing discussions with the BBC; and urges the Government fully to recognise the absurdity of people living in sheltered accommodation paying different licence fees if their accommodation does not have a common and exclusive boundary.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs.