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BBC: Tim Davie says ‘people are clearly worried’<\/h3>\n

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Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced yesterday, on Monday, that the TV licence fee will be frozen at £159 for two years, and that a review will be undertaken that could see it scrapped entirely. She said the move would help families struggling as a result of the growing “global cost of living”. BBC Director-General Tim Davie hit back at this decision, warning that the broadcaster would “inevitably” be forced to cut programmes and services if the fee did not rise with inflation.<\/p>\n

Mr Davie told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday that, under his watch, cuts have already been made in cutting costs that “don’t affect licence fee payers” – that is, by reducing the number of services available to the public.<\/p>\n

He added that its spending operations were “lean” in areas including support staff.<\/p>\n

Ms Dorries announced that after two years remaining at £159, the licence fee would increase as per the rate of inflation until 2027, after which time the fee could be scrapped altogether.<\/p>\n

The corporation’s head said internal calculations put the loss of income due to this freeze at just shy of £300million.<\/p>\n

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Such a cut would result in its current “lean” spending being too exorbitant, he added, and would “inevitably” beckon the end of some programmes.<\/p>\n

Mr Davie noted his disappointment in the settlement and said: “Our estimate is, and just to set this clearly for everyone, by the year end 2027, the licence fee income will be about £4.2billion based on our assumptions around inflation, obviously guessing games around inflation are obviously difficult.<\/p>\n

“We know this settlement… gives a £285million gap at the end of the period.”<\/p>\n

He insisted: “This will affect our front line output.”<\/p>\n

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This could include BBC Four being scrapped, with Mr Davie noting that “everything’s on the agenda”.<\/p>\n

In what sounded like an ultimatum threat to Government ministers considering the future of the BBC, he said: “If you don’t have £285million, you will get less services and less programmes.”<\/p>\n

While in the short term, the freezing of the licence free has triggered wide-ranging debate, the bigger question is whether the fee will exist at all after the expiration of the broadcaster’s current royal charter in 2027.<\/p>\n

Ms Dorries said in a tweet on Sunday that the next announcement about the TV licence free would be “the last”.<\/p>\n

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She added that it was time to discuss new ways of “selling great British content”, though later appeared to water down her remarks.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Government minister committed only to a “review” of the current funding model.<\/p>\n

According to Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney, the abolition of the licence fee is no longer a question of if but when.<\/p>\n

He told Express.co.uk that it is “inevitable” the fee will be axed.<\/p>\n

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But he suggested this would’t go far enough given the BBC’s “betrayal” of the public.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris-Quiney said: “Taxpayers have been scammed out of hundreds of billions by the BBC over the years, to be force fed liberal propaganda.<\/p>\n

“We don’t just want the licence fee gone, we want it broken up, sold off, and we want our money back.”<\/p>\n

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