Television Licences: Fees and Charges
(asked on 19th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the tweet by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 16 January where she stated that “this licence fee announcement will be the last”, whether they intend this to be the last time the BBC licence fee is renewed.
Answered by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 31st January 2022
The Government has committed to maintain the current licence fee funding model for the duration of this 11-year Charter period, i.e. until 2027.
As the Secretary of State has made clear, we will be reviewing the licence fee funding model well in advance of the next Charter period.