Question follow-through · 25305
Television Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people submitted a no licence needed declaration and subsequently purchased a TV Licence within six months, disaggregated by whether enforcement correspondence had been despatch
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people submitted a no licence needed declaration and subsequently purchased a TV Licence within six months, disaggregated by whether enforcement correspondence had been despatch
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2026
Answer published
The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee. The Government is therefore not involved in TV Licensing operations and does not hold information on its processes. The Government expects the BBC to collect the licence fee in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
No later same-department questions indexed.
This is an absence in covered public data, not evidence that no follow-up occurred elsewhere.