@JWhittingdale says there are many aspects of licence fee he doesn’t like – it’s a flat charge, no means testing, highly regressive.
The case that everyone benefits from BBC will diminish over time. Eventually we will need alternative means of funding. — Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (@CommonsDCMS) December 15, 2020His comments come as the Government prepares to publish its response to a consultation on decriminalising licence fee evasion. “It is clear that the alternatives do carry with them potential negatives as well… with higher fines and… bailiffs to knock on people’s door, so we are of a view that this is a more complicated matter than was originally perhaps suggested,” he said. “We are certainly not going to rule it.
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