19 The range of resources includes licenced (paid for) sites such as Beating the Blues 20 and free access websites providing access to CBT life skills resources (eg, Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) 21 and MoodGYM).
The green paper came 10 days after confirmation of the BBC's latest funding deal with the government, in which it took on the £750m cost of funding free licence fees for the over-75s in return for a range of concessions, including a licence fee linked to inflation.
Purnell said it should be looked at as part of a whole range of issues around the licence fee, including extending it to people who only watch programmes on the iPlayer, not as a one-off change in the law.
Unveiling the government's green paper on the future of the BBC on Thursday, Whittingdale said the scale and scope of the BBC had grown exponentially in the last decade and said the time was right to question "whether this particular range of services best serves licence fee payers".
Unveiling the government's green paper on the future of the BBC last week, Whittingdale said the scale and scope of the BBC had grown exponentially in the past decade and the time was right to question "whether this particular range of services best serves licence fee payers".
Unveiling the government's green paper on the future of the BBC on Thursday, the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, said the BBC's TV, radio and online operations had grown exponentially over the last decade and it was time to ask "whether this particular range of services best serves licence fee payers".
Unveiling the government's green paper on the future of the BBC on Thursday, the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, said the BBC had grown exponentially over the last decade and it was time to ask "whether this particular range of services best serves licence fee payers".
The BBC constantly strives to deliver a range of content and services that licence fee payers will choose and enjoy.
"Normally, we are told, it's when the magistrate gets frustrated that someone is wilfully not paying a whole range of fines, not just the licence fee," he said.
Unlike a mutual fund, it would hold illiquid investments in a range of private companies, products, patents, licences, royalties anything in medical research that may eventually produce a cash flow.Although the odds of any single medical innovation succeeding are low, the chance that one of them will is high.
