Question follow-through · 11864
Television Licences: Non-payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussion she had with the BBC on decriminalising non-payment of the TV license fee.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussion she had with the BBC on decriminalising non-payment of the TV license fee.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Culture Secretary believes it is important that the television licence fee has a fair enforcement regime that does not disproportionately impact vulnerable people, and has discussed her concerns on this issue with the BBC’s leadership.As part of the n...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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