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.

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.