Whether she plans to review categories of people required to pay the TV licence fee.

As indicated in the BBC charter review green paper, which was published in March, we believe that the current scope of licence fee concessions is about right. However, we are in the process of re-examining any anomalies in the existing concessions policy and our conclusions will be set out in a white paper to be published early next year.

The Department has sanctioned a fairly hard-hitting campaign to remind law-abiding students with televisions in their rooms at university or college of the need to hold a TV licence. Will the Under-Secretary explain why those detained in Her Majesty's prisons with televisions in their cells do not have to hold a television licence? He claimed to be tough on crime and the causes of crime. Will he therefore at least treat prisoners in the same way as our young people?

We are considering all the different concessions as part of the review for the white paper. If the hon. Gentleman writes to me, I will be happy to consider his comments. We will make announcements in due course and at the right time, when we publish the rest of the White Paper.

Will my hon. Friend congratulate Michael Grade, the chairman of the BBC, on ditching the repulsive "Get one or get done" licensing campaign, with its odious combination of threats and snooping, and on replacing it with a much more user-friendly licensing campaign? Will he also thank him for listening to the voices in the House of Commons on this matter?

I will be happy to congratulate the chairman of the BBC on that, but I believe that congratulations are also due to my right hon. Friend's Select Committee, whose members pressed the chairman to make that change in the first place.

The Minister will be aware of the continuing increase in television licence fee evasion in parts of the United Kingdom, especially Northern Ireland. Will he carry out a review of TV Licensing to ensure that it becomes more open about the areas in which evasion occurs and outlines the action that it intends to take to ensure that the evasion ceases?

Evasion has fallen across the rest of the country, but I am aware that there is a problem in the hon. Gentleman's Constituency and in the neighbouring areas. I am happy to write to TV Licensing about this problem and then to write to the hon. Gentleman with its views on what it intends to do about it. However, the enforcement of TV licence regulations is a matter for TV Licensing, not for the Government.

When my hon. Friend undertakes his review, will he look carefully at the rights of my constituents and those of my hon. Friend Ben Chapman on the west of the Wirral? No one in those areas can receive public service broadcasting, particularly the news, through the terrestrial services in English. Do not those people have rights? This is not a technical issue but one of expenditure. Perhaps the answer will lie in the digital switchover, but will the Minister ensure that those people's rights are fully met?

I am happy to ensure that the interests of my hon. Friend's constituents are taken fully into account in the switchover. Only by switching off the analogue signal will we be able to increase the coverage of the digital signal that will give people far more choice and access to the services that are relevant to them.