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Review of TV licence enforcement
Ministers are to review how payment of the TV licence fee is enforced amid concerns about the number of people appearing in court for evasion.
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid will say more than 10% of all cases heard by magistrates involve TV licences and question whether the system is working.
The review should conclude early in the next Parliament, he will say.
It comes as Rona Fairhead, ministers' preferred candidate to chair the BBC Trust, prepares to face MPs' questions.
The former Financial Times chief executive will be questioned about her views on the future regulation and funding of the BBC when she appears before the Commons Media Select Committee.
The Conservatives and Labour have said they are sympathetic to calls for the decriminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee, which is used to fund BBC services.
Legislation currently going through Parliament would give a future government the power to move towards decriminalisation if it was deemed to be in the public interest.
Read more here —> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29114235
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid will say more than 10% of all cases heard by magistrates involve TV licences and question whether the system is working.
The review should conclude early in the next Parliament, he will say.
It comes as Rona Fairhead, ministers' preferred candidate to chair the BBC Trust, prepares to face MPs' questions.
The former Financial Times chief executive will be questioned about her views on the future regulation and funding of the BBC when she appears before the Commons Media Select Committee.
The Conservatives and Labour have said they are sympathetic to calls for the decriminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee, which is used to fund BBC services.
Legislation currently going through Parliament would give a future government the power to move towards decriminalisation if it was deemed to be in the public interest.
Read more here —> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29114235
