Television Licences: Enforcement

(asked on 12th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he holds information on how much and what proportion of the BBC licence fee was spent in the last year on multiple letters to households suspected of requiring a licence.


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John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

The BBC’s Annual Report shows that spent £103m on TV licence collection in 2018/19.

However, the Government does not hold information on the costs of the BBC’s enforcement methods. The BBC and TV Licensing may hold this information.

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