Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to paragraphs 1.296 and 1.297 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what progress her Department has made by estimated capacity of land sold since March 2016 in identifying and disposing of land to meet the Government's commitment.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government has an ambition to sell surplus land and property to generate £5 billion from sales receipts and create capacity for at least 160,000 homes by the end of March 2020.
In March we published a Government Review: Making Commercial Terms of Government Land Disposals More Transparent. The report committed to publish details of Government land sales annually, with the first publication in summer 2017. The report will include all sales in 2015/16 and 2016/17.
Progress towards meeting the housing ambition is set out in Table 3 of the Public Land for Housing Programme Annual Report published in February 2017.
Increasing the supply of land for new homes is central to this Government’s vision of a country that works for everyone. As a major landowner the Government has a crucial role to play in managing its estate more efficiently to secure best value for money for the taxpayer, boost growth and help support the building of new homes.
Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of households possessed a television licence in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The table below sets out the percentage of licensable places that hold a TV licence. This is based on TV Licensing's evasion model which compares total licences in force to total licensable places but does not split between domestic households and other places such as businesses and student halls. Therefore it cannot be stated specifically what proportion of households had a licence.
Date | Licensable places with a TV licence |
March 1995 | 90.0% |
March 1996 | 90.7% |
March 1997 | 91.0% |
March 1998 | 91.8% |
March 1999 | 93.0% |
March 2000 | 93.7% |
March 2001 | 93.9% |
March 2002 | 94.1% |
March 2003 | 94.6% |
March 2004 | 95.3% |
March 2005 | 95.8% |
March 2006 | 95.9% |
March 2007 | 95.5% |
March 2008 | 95.4% |
March 2009 | 95.1% |
March 2010 | 95.1% |
March 2011 | 94.8% |
March 2012 | 94.4% |
March 2013 | 94.6% |
March 2014 | 94.6% |
Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the number of households with internet access which do not have a television licence.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Such figures are not readily available. However based on estimates 82% of households have some form of internet access. This is based on Ofcom's 2014 Infrastructure report 2014 which quotes 18% of households (estimated) have no home access to the internet, fixed or mobile and 27% of UK households do not take a fixed broadband connection of any kind. Some of these will be using mobile data services, such as 3G and 4G connections on their smartphones or tablets.
5.94% of licensable premises do not have a TV licence - this is based on TV Licensing's figure of 94.06% total licences in force to total licensable places. However, this does not split between domestic households and other places such as businesses and student halls. Therefore it cannot be stated what proportion of households have a licence, and nor is the data available on which of these homes have internet access.