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date	2019-06-21
answer › question first answered	2019-06-28T13:42:56.383Z
registered interest	false

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21/06/2019

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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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Television Licences: Older People

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25259

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question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government plans to take to help protect vulnerable older people from prosecution for unpaid TV licences.

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Huddersfield

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Mr Barry Sheerman

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267716

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

28/06/2019

answer text

The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee, not government. The BBC set out in its decision document on the future of the over 75 licence fee concession that enforcement action would be a last resort, and that it will consider ‘people’s vulnerability'.

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Stourbridge

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Margot James

question first answered

28/06/2019 13:42:56

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4115

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411

label	Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman