My Lords, I was a member of that licence fee commission under Gavyn Davies in 1998. It may interest the House to know that we had a subcommittee under the late Lord Newton looking at the issue of possibly funding a licence fee for over-75s and making it free. The unanimous conclusion of the committee was that that was a very bad idea and wholly inappropriate for the BBC.
Digital Economy Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Gordon of Strathblane
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 8 February 2017.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Digital Economy Bill.
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Reference
778 c1754
Session
2016-17
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2017-02-13 15:36:52 +0000
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