The phrase "a flat licence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a type of license that has a fixed fee or a standard rate, often in relation to software or services.
Example: "To access the premium features, you need to purchase a flat licence for the year."
Alternatives: "fixed license" or "standard license".
It requires it not only to make efficiency savings to live within a flat licence fee up til the end of 2016/17".
We had a flat licence fee deal imposed on us, we had to absorb £500m of costs, absorbing the World Service, BBC Monitoring, £150m for broadband, city [local] TV and S4C.
Western Australia released a green paper looking at possible reforms in July, and is considering the idea that Uber could pay a flat licence fee on behalf of drivers.
Meantime, the jockey, who also holds a flat racing licence, wants to concentrate on what's set to be his best ever jumps season.
The report is understood to explore three broad options: another flat licence fee deal from 2017; a funding deal linked to inflation combined with better use of commercial assets; and some form of John Lewis-style mutualisation (although at the retailer it is the employees that own the business, rather than the customers).
That would propel Patten into the £110,000-a-year, four-day a week role at a time when the public broadcaster has just asked for 20% cuts to meet the flat licence fee settlement imposed by the government last year.
Lyons did not disagree and said the BBC Trust would now consult the public about what the future of the corporation should be in light of the flat licence fee and the requirement to make more savings.
The BBC director general Tony Hall has said the deal, which also saw the BBC receive a number of funding benefits, including the prospect of the licence fee being linked to the consumer price index, would give the BBC "effectively, flat licence fee income across the first five years of the next charter".
Job: chairman, BBC Trust Age: 67 Industry: broadcasting Salary: £110,000 Staff: 66 New entry A former Tory party chairman and the last governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten took charge of the BBC Trust at a critical time as the corporation looks to make 20% budget cuts in the wake of last year's flat licence fee settlement.
He said there would be no editorial job losses in the coming year, but that more efficiencies would need to be found after that, with the BBC facing across-the-board cuts of 16% after the flat licence fee settlement with the government in 2010.
The words "means testing" were never uttered, though again Whittingdale has made no secret of his own view that a flat-rate licence fee is "regressive" as everyone from poorest to richest pays it.
