TV Licence Fee from 1 April 2010

The increase, to be brought into effect by an order laid in the House of Commons today, follows the six-year BBC funding settlement which began in April 2007.

The licence fee increase is set at three per cent for the first two years of the settlement and two per cent in years three, four and five. This is year four. Any increase (of up to two per cent) in year six will be set nearer the time.