Question follow-through · 67196
Television Licences: Direct Debits
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has held discussions with the BBC on requiring new Direct Debit customers to pay six months of licence fees in advance.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 11 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has held discussions with the BBC on requiring new Direct Debit customers to pay six months of licence fees in advance.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
Television licences are issued on an annual basis and households can choose a variety of payment plans to spread the cost of the licence, including monthly and quarterly payment plans.New joiners to TV Licensing’s monthly direct debit scheme pay for their...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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