BBC TV licence won’t be scrapped until at least 2027, the government has confirmed.It comes after it was announced that the annual licence fee will increase by £5 to £174.50 in 2025.The £5 increase will come into force in April, and is significantly less than the £10.50 rise that was applied earlier this year.
The government has returned to calculating the increase by using an annual inflation rate rather than a monthly one, reports BBC News.The cost of a TV licence is due to increase in line with inflation each year until 2027, following an agreement made in 2022.The government will examine the issue of BBC funding as part of the charter review process, before the BBC’s current royal charter expires in 2027.
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