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1353540

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Aerials: Middlesbrough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward proposals to part-refund television licenses for people affected by the Bilsdale transmitter fire.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	44295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>Under the Communications Act 2003, the BBC are entitled to make refunds for the TV licence fee in such circumstances as they may determine.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Following the Bilsdale mast fire, the BBC has announced that affected households which have been unable to receive TV coverage for over a month, and are also unable to view BBC programming through BBC iPlayer, and satellite and cable platforms, will be able to claim a refund or be offered a free extension to their TV Licence, depending on their TV Licensing payment plan. The BBC will make information available on these arrangements from 10 September on the TV Licensing website: <a href="https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/transmitter" target="_blank">https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/transmitter</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 10/09/2021 07:22:35 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1353541

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Aerials: Middlesbrough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to protect television signal infrastructure following the Bilsdale transmitter fire and the time taken to restore television services.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	44296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>Arqiva - a private infrastructure company - operates the UK’s terrestrial broadcast transmitter sites which carry BBC and commercial operators’ TV services. We remain in close contact with Arqiva and broadcasters who are working as fast and as safely as they can to restore TV and radio services in the areas served by Bilsdale by using existing and new alternate transmission sites.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 15/09/2021 08:06:40 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris