BBC Faces Fresh Funding Cut As UK Government Plans To Peg License Fee Below Inflation

The BBC faces another real terms funding cut as the UK government has signalled its intention to the renege on the 2022 licence fee deal.

December 4, 2023 · 1 min · 70 words · Ryan Doyle

I wouldnt put it like that at all, she said.

And what were looking at is the appropriate rate of inflation.

The two-year license freeze left a 2B shortfall in the corporations finances.

Culture secretary Lucy Frazer

Culture secretary Lucy FrazerGetty

Any deal below the level of inflation will result in a further hole in the BBCs budget.

Retreating from government promises to ensure proper funding for the BBC is not the way forward.