For patients with concession cards and children aged under 16 the fee will apply for only the first 10 services in each year.
BBC management had "verbal discussions" with BBC Worldwide, agreeing to meet the cost of her departure from the licence fee if she left the commercial division within two years.
Grade was always less convinced of the need or wisdom of the move to Manchester and made little secret of his view that it would be the first casualty of a low licence fee settlement.
One issue upon which they stuck fast - Grade apparently threatened to resign over it - was their opposition to "top-slicing" of the BBC licence fee.
The idea being that it would receive the licence fee and could in time become a kind of public body funding public broadcasting (or possibly specific programmes) other than on the BBC.
Purnell said the BBC had been forced to cut back on the range of services it offers following the 2010 funding settlement, which froze the licence fee at £145.50 until 2017, including axing original daytime programmes on BBC2, and the decision, yet to be formally submitted to the BBC Trust, to axe the BBC3 TV channel.
Separately, the controller of drama commissioning Ben Stephenson forked out £1,272.94 for a "development meeting" with "key drama indies" on 17 August, which 19 guests attended at a cost to the licence-fee payer of just under £70 a head.
In 2012-13 the Russell Group in England spent £24.6m on outreach activities recognised by the Office for Fair Access (Offa), equating to around £1.2m per institution, plus £128m of their extra fee income on bursaries.
I have on file cases of Britons recently imprisoned for crimes as relatively mild as abusive tweeting, poll-rigging, Boat Race obstructing, cathedral desecrating, job-application falsifying, expenses fiddling, urinatingon a war memorial, speeding-point switching, licence fee non-paying, and googling in court.
Because of a time restriction, we were obliged to interview the artists as a pack.When we came to the carpet guy, the correspondent I'd spoken with earlier asked him about his £8,000 fee for a domestic commission.
The last licence fee final negotiations were hair-raisingly negotiated with virtually no civil service participation – and now the department has lost half its staff.
