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BBC loses £1bn as more viewers cancel TV licence
Licence fee evasion rose to 12.5%, costing £1.1bn, while prosecutions fell 17% as household visits and enforcement effectiveness declined, MPs said.
- The Public Accounts Committee warned last year that licence fee evasion and households not purchasing a licence represented over 25 in potential lost income, risking public confidence.
- Evasion is now running at 12.5 per cent with 3.6m households declaring they do not need a licence, and the BBC says fewer people answer doors than five years ago.
- Despite 2 million visits in '24-'25, prosecutions fell 17 per cent by December 2024, while enforcement often meant letters—one member received 57 with no follow-up visit.
- Faced with calls to modernise, the BBC must update its outdated house-visit collection and consider iPlayer payment conditions, while opposing a paywall to preserve universality, MPs said.
- The BBC reports digitisation could slash costs by 166m, but household-linked licences limit tying iPlayer sign-ups to payments, despite 60 per cent being digital.
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