Supported by: Richard Lyle*, Rona Mackay*, Emma Harper*, Iain Gray*, Monica Lennon*, Joan McAlpine*, Kenneth Gibson*, Angela Constance* *S5M-17713 Christine Grahame: Conservatives Pass the Buck to Beeb—That the Parliament condemns the decision by the BBC to scrap the free TV licence for people over 75 who are not in receipt of pension credit despite the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto promise to “maintain” benefits for older people, “including free bus passes, eye tests, prescriptions and TV licences"; considers that this compounds the fact that, if you are a pensioner married to someone below pension age, you are also losing entitlement to Pension Credit; understands that, with approximately 40% of pensioners entitled to Pension Credit not claiming, there is £10 billion saved each year by the Treasury; considers that the UK Conservative administration can, from these unclaimed benefits, meet the £745 million each year to cover the cost of free licences for all over 75s in the Borders and Midlothian, and elsewhere, which it believes would be for viewers who are probably the most loyal to BBC programmes, and notes the calls on the UK Government, and whoever wins the Conservative Party leadership contest, to fund free TV licences for over 75s, which it considers to clearly be a “benefit”.