Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the BBC on the introduction of subscription for non-core services provided by that corporation.
The government decided to retain the licence fee funding model for the duration of the current BBC Royal Charter. Alongside this the BBC has committed to consider and explore whether elements of subscription have a role to play alongside the core licence fee model in its future funding, to develop and test the scope for additional sources of commercial revenue.