Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to promote access to a free TV licence by claiming pension credit.

The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee and all of its concessions. The Government is therefore not involved in TV Licensing operations.

Information about Pension Credit and how to check whether someone is eligible for a free licence is included on all of TV Licensing’s mailings, as well as on the TV Licensing website.

The Government makes information about TV licence concessions available on the gov.uk website at https://www.gov.uk/free-discount-tv-licence.