THE BBC bombarded Britons with TV licencing letters as revenues from the controversial fee fall, new figures have shown.
bombarded Britons with TV licencing letters as revenues from the controversial fee fall, new figures have shown.
Over 36 million licence enforcement letters were sent to households across the UK in the last financial year, data obtained by The Telegraph has found.battling to compete with new competitors in the form of podcasts and online streaming servicesEnforcement letters warn residents that if they do not pay the fee, they are breaking the law by watching TV or using BBC iPlayer and that they may be visited by an enforcement officer.
In the financial year from 2022 to 2023 the BBC sent 36.1 million letters to households, up just over 1% on the 35.7m sent between 2021 and 2022 and approximately 6% on the 34 million reportedly sent between 2020 and 2021, figures obtained by The Telegraph showed.Dodging the fee is thought to cost the corporation around £430m at a rate of 10.3% of households avoiding the payment – the highest level since 1995.
A spokesman for TV Licensing said: “The overwhelming majority of households are correctly licensed. TV Licensing has a responsibility to communicate with unlicensed households to support the collection of the licence fee. “The letters generate more funds than they cost to send, so more money can be spent on programmes and services.”
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