BBC director-general Tim Davie has previously said he is open to a ‘more progressive’ licence fee.
The sustainability of the BBC TV licence fee will be a “big part” of charter renewal talks, a culture minister has said, as MPs questioned its long-term future.
She told a Commons debate on the BBC mid-term charter review: “That will be a big part of the discussion around charter renewal – be without any doubt. Earlier in the debate, Conservative MP Sir William Cash said: “Why should those who pay the licence fee, who feel that the BBC disregards their views and can be demonstrated to have experienced that, be forced to pay for its running?”
He said: “I note with interest the annual report on the licence fee produced by the BBC claims that they’ve visited over 72,000 premises without a licence, but then the report mysteriously fails to say what actual action that was taken as a result of that. Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the BBC is successful at making programmes but “completely unable to compete” with streamers such as Amazon Prime and Netflix because it is not allowed to run subscription services in the same way.
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