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

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of replacing the BBC licence fee with a household tax.

As part of the BBC Charter Review, we are looking at a range of options to support the BBC with sustainable and fair funding, including how the BBC can operate more efficiently, generate more commercial revenue, and how the licence fee could be reformed including the scope of services for which a TV licence is required.

The BBC licence fee is a tried and tested public funding model, we have ruled out funding the BBC through general taxation or another form of public funding, such as a household tax.