TV Licences for Over-75s

Debate between Pat McFadden and Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

Wednesday 8th May 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) (Lab)]

On giving a welfare policy to the BBC, a lot of footballing metaphors have been used in the past 24 hours, after Liverpool’s glorious result against Barcelona last night, but does my hon. Friend agree that in policy terms this is the equivalent of a hospital pass?

[Tom Watson]

It certainly is for this Minister, who happens to be answering today. But it is not as if she, or other Front Benchers, did not have notice, because during the passage of the Bill that enabled this my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan) made that very point.