[cma-l] Culture Media and Sport - Digital Broadcasting

[CMA-L]

All Written Answers on 30 Apr 2008

Rosie Cooper (PPS (Mr Ben Bradshaw, Minister of State), Department of
Health; West Lancashire, Labour):

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what
estimate he has made of the number of constituencies in which
residential areas will no longer be able to receive terrestrial
television signals following digital switchover in 2012.


Andy Burnham (Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media &
Sport; Leigh, Labour):

We expect that at switchover the coverage of the public service
broadcaster (PSB) multiplexes, via Digital Terrestrial Television
(DTT), will match that of the existing analogue services, which is
98.5 per cent. of households.

We do not keep data on a constituency basis.