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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information he holds on how the BBC will enforce payment of the licence fee by people watching iPlayer.

We are seeking views on the practicalities of enforcement of modernising the licence fee in order to cover public service broadcast catch-up TV as part of BBC Charter Review public consultation published on Thursday 16 July.

The current TV Licence Fee enforcement regime, which includes live or nearly live broadcast television content on any electronic device including via iPlayer, has been reviewed independently. The report has been published and is available via this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445212/166926_Perry_Review_Text-L-PB.pdf