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Digital Switchover

Volume 454: debated on Wednesday 13 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her estimate is of the number of households which will qualify for assistance n switching over to digital television in each parliamentary constituency in the south-west. (105509)

The information is as follows:

Constituency

Total eligible benefits units

Bath

11,000

Bournemouth East

11,000

Bournemouth West

12,000

Bridgwater

13,000

Bristol East

13,000

Bristol North West

12,000

Bristol South

13,000

Bristol West

9,000

Cheltenham

11,000

Christchurch

16,000

Cotswold

10,000

Devizes

11,000

East Devon

16,000

Exeter

13,000

Falmouth and Camborne

14,000

Forest of Dean

11,000

Gloucester

12,000

Kingswood

12,000

Mid Dorset and North Poole

10,000

North Cornwall

15,000

North Devon

14,000

North Dorset

12,000

North Swindon

9,000

North Wiltshire

10,000

Northavon

10,000

Plymouth, Devonport

13,000

Plymouth, Sutton

12,000

Poole

13,000

St. Ives

14,000

Salisbury

13,000

Somerton and Frome

12,000

South Dorset

13,000

South East Cornwall

13,000

South Swindon

9,000

South West Devon

10,000

Stroud

11,000

Taunton

14,000

Teignbridge

16,000

Tewkesbury

11,000

Tiverton and Honiton

14,000

Torbay

16,000

Torridge and West Devon

14,000

Totnes

14,000

Truro and St Austell

15,000

Wansdyke

11,000

Wells

14,000

West Dorset

13,000

Westbury

12,000

Weston-Super-Mare

14,000

Woodspring

10,000

Yeovil

13,000

Totals

634,000

Notes:

1. Rounded to the nearest thousand.

2.The table shows all parliamentary constituencies covered by the Government office for the south west. The region receives terrestrial television services from the following ITV regions: West Country, West, Meridian and Central.

3. Eligibility for help from the digital switchover help scheme will be by benefit unit rather than the whole household definition used by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) the Scottish Executive, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Office to forecast future household growth.

4. The definition of a benefit unit is a couple and any dependent children. It excludes adults deemed to be non-dependents who, if eligible, will be able to claim assistance from the help scheme in their own right.