Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,

The following statements are taken from the website of TV Licensing.

"If you don’t have a television set or have one but don’t use it to watch programmes as they are being shown on TV, we ask that you inform us this is the case, so that we can register it on our database to prevent unnecessary contact. An enquiry officer may call to verify this. This is necessary because when we make contact on these visits, almost a fifth of people are found to require a TV Licence. We believe that the fairest and most consistent approach is to visit addresses where TV Licensing is notified that no television set is used."

"If, during a brief visit, an enquiry officer can verify that no licence is likely to be needed, he or she will stop any further contact to that address for two years for a residential address and three years for a business address."

1. Do these instructions form part of the TV licensing legislation?

2. Is there any obligation to comply with the instructions within those two paragraphs?

3. Is there any obligation to allow an enquiry officer into my home or business?

4. If a person has said, he/she will never watch live broadcasts or will never buy a TV. Why do you intend to pester him/her every two years to check his/her honesty?

5. Are you proud of the fact that you and your agents Capita put poor people into further poverty with the swingeing fines and court costs?

Yours faithfully,

Dave: Knight