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Digital Television

Volume 457: debated on Wednesday 7 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has made of the number of households which will qualify for assistance in switching over to digital television in (a) Leicestershire, (b) Warwickshire and (c) Northamptonshire, broken down by parliamentary constituency. (125633)

The information requested is as follows.

Constituency

Households (defined as eligible benefit units)

Blaby

9,000

Corby

11,000

Daventry

11,000

Harborough

10,000

Kettering

11,000

Leicester East

11,000

Leicester South

10,000

Leicester West

9,000

Loughborough

9,000

North Warwickshire

11,000

North West Leicestershire

11,000

Northampton North

10,000

Northampton South

11,000

Nuneaton

11,000

Rugby and Kenilworth

11,000

Rutland and Melton

10,000

Stratford-on-Avon

12,000

Warwick and Leamington

12,000

Wellingborough

11,000

Notes:

1. Totals for constituencies rounded to the nearest thousand.

2. 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.

3. 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.