Question follow-through · 121647
Streaming: Television Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to prevent subscription-based streaming services from being brought within the scope of the TV licence fee.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to prevent subscription-based streaming services from being brought within the scope of the TV licence fee.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
A TV licence is currently required to watch live TV, and to watch or download any BBC programme on iPlayer. Households are therefore already required to hold a TV licence to watch live TV on a subscription-based streaming service.The Government launched t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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