Question follow-through · 12630
BBC: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an alternative funding scheme to the BBC licence fee.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an alternative funding scheme to the BBC licence fee.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government remains committed to the licence fee for the remainder of the current Charter period.As part of the next Charter Review, the government will engage with the BBC and others to consider how to ensure the BBC thrives well into the next decade ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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