Sentence examples for licence fees by from inspiring English sources

In that case, the Home Secretary, who had the power to revoke television licences, purported to revoke the licences of people who had pre-empted a rise in licence fees by buying a licence at the old rate before the date when the fees were due to go up, even though their old licences had not yet expired.

"You would only be reducing the licence fee by £10 or £20.

Labour planned to abolish the licence fee by bringing the BBC within general government expenditure.

Ofcom, the broadcast regulator, found Arise in breach of its licence for failing to pay its annual licence fee by the required date.

She favoured undermining the licence fee by encouraging ITV to create television sets which received only commercial channels, giving viewers  the opportunity to bypass the BBC.

Nigel Farage, for example, said he was unhappy at Ukip's treatment on the BBC and proposed cutting the licence fee by two-thirds.

Peter Preston, writing in the Observer last week, discussed revamping the licence fee by introducing a separate cyberspace package administered by internet service providers.

The idea of top-slicing the licence fee by redistributing £130m a year from the digital switchover help scheme after 2012 remains on the table.

An independent report into decriminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee by David Perry concluded that decriminalisation would not be appropriate under the current funding model.

"We were sometimes struck," says Mr Davies in his last chapter, which addresses the issue of whether, in 2006, the government should renew the licence fee,by an apparent lack of clarity in determining priorities.

The Tories have promised to lay bare how the BBC spends its £3.4bn-a-year licence fee by giving the National Audit Office carte blanche to pick through the corporation's accounts.