The Secretary of Culture said that the BBC license fees are “incapable” and insisted “no option is outside the table” when the government begins an examination on the current financing model of the company later this year.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Lisa Nandy said there were “problems” with annual costs, “fewer and fewer people” paying the costs of £ 174.50.
The Charter, which expires in 2027 and is being examined, is an agreement between the BBC and the government which defines the conditions and objectives of the company – including the existence of license costs.
A spokesperson for the BBC said that the broadcaster was looking forward to engaging with the government and guaranteeing the long-term future of the BBC.
Nandy has already started negotiations with the BBC on the financing of the company.
He is currently obtaining the major part of his income from license fees – during the last financial year, the BBC received 3.7 billion pounds sterling, or about two -thirds of his total income.
“We are open to a different system,” she told Telegraph, but admitted that no favorite option had yet been advanced.
She added that the government wanted the public to shape the new model to create “a fairer and more lasting system”.
According to the BBC, 80% of households are currently paying license costs.
Nandy also said that she had been “very concerned” by the way the costs had been applied in the past, because he had been noted to target women disproportionately.
Two BBC journals revealed that the disparity between the sexes was due to societal factors.
The magazine in 2017 detailed a gender bias towards households reserved for women, a greater probability of women responding to the door of investigation agents on television licenses and a great chance that they are positively committed to an officer.
In 2023, The BBC has developed plans to reduce the high proportion of women prosecuted For the escape of license costs, after the figures, they showed 76% of the 52,376 people sentenced for this in 2020.
Nandy previously declared that the accusation was “deeply regressive” and that it thought “rather radically and in a creative manner” on alternatives. But The Minister excluded using general taxation To finance the BBC.
However, it continued to open the possibility of a subscription model.
Last month in a Times Sunday interview, the company The president suggested that richer households could be billed more.
A spokesperson for the BBC said: “The public cares about the BBC and we have launched our greatest public commitment exercise, so that the public can help drive and shape what they want from a universal and independent BBC in the future.
“We want to continue to reform and evolve and delight us to engage with the government in the next charter and to guarantee the long -term future of the BBC.”
