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Digital Broadcasting: Radio

Volume 507: debated on Friday 12 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland which have (i) one digital radio and (ii) two or more digital radios. (321653)

Research by Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR) published in February 2010 indicates that 33.4 per cent. of adults in the UK own a DAB set at home. 10.5 million DAB sets had been sold by the end of 2009, and some of these are thought to be repeat purchases: research by Digital Radio UK suggests that 66 per cent. of DAB set owners possess more than one set. Separate figures for Scotland are not published.