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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the letter he sent to the BBC Trust on 3 July 2015.

The full text of the agreement reached between the BBC and the government on funding of the over-75s free television licences has been published on the Gov.uk website, and can be found using the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443735/Letter_from_George_Osborne_and_John_Whittingdale_to_Tony_Hall_FINAL.PDF