Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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TV Licence Fee from 1 April 2010
From 1 April, the cost of a colour television licence will be £145.50 and a black and white licence will be £49.00.
The increase, to be brought into effect by an order laid in the House of Commons today, follows the six-year BBC funding settlement which began in April 2007.
The licence fee increase is set at three per cent for the first two years of the settlement and two per cent in years three, four and five. This is year four. Any increase (of up to two per cent) in year six will be set nearer the time.
Notes to Editors
1. The fee
for a basic black and white only TV licence will increase from
£48.00 to £49.00, and a basic colour TV licence from £142.50 to £145.50.
2. The six-year settlement enables the BBC to:
- Implement the vision of the 2006 White Paper and Charter
and Agreement, maintaining relevance and impact in a period of
rapid change.
- Support digital switchover, including funding and delivery
of a help scheme for vulnerable people.
- Widen the geographical spread of its production facilities
and make better use of the creativity and talent that exists
across the UK, including by moving significant production to the
North West of England.
- Maximise value for money to the licence fee payer.
Contacts:
DCMS Press Enquiries and Out of hours telephone pager
Phone:
020 7211 6263
Mobile: 07699 751153
NDS.DCMS@coi.gsi.gov.uk
Emma Marsh.
Phone: 020 72116271
emma.marsh@culture.gsi.gov.uk
