Tory opposition also meant that there will now be no funding drawn from the BBC licence fee for "independently financed news consortiums", which would have made local news to replace regional bulletins on ITV1 — though that might be revived if Labour wins the general election.
The latest skirmish over card fees is about the fees charged at independently operated A.T.M.'s — those cash machines not affiliated with banks that you see in convenience stores, hotel lobbies and airports.
The redress scheme, requiring new legislation, would allow complaints about poor service or hidden fees to be independently examined, and where a complaint is upheld, receive compensation, the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, will say, building on anouncements made at Conservative party conference.
The government has suggested that part of the TV licence fee could be used for independently funded news consortia (IFNCs) in England, Scotland and Wales that would continue to provide local news.
For each satisfaction index, women were classified into quintiles (from the lowest, Q1, to the highest quintile, Q5) independently of which fee exemption group they belonged to.
Fee-for-service billing involves payment for every item or unit of care that physicians provide for their patients; physicians remunerated by fee-for-service may practice independently (solo) or be affiliated with a group (non-solo).
That office may independently set standards and fees for the use of the materials.
"The fees are so high that thinking independently is now a risk," says one final-year student at UCL's Bartlett school of architecture, which has topped the Guardian's university league table for the third year running.
Licence fee payers overwhelmingly want the level decided independently.
He added it would "operate at arm's length", there would be "no cross subsidy from the licence fee" and it would be "stringently and independently regulated".
