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<p>The lead department on TV licencing is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media
and Sport (DDCMS).</p><p> </p><p>The responsibility for TV licence fee concessions
will pass from government to the BBC in June 2020, at which time the BBC has taken
the decision to end free TV licences for all over 75s.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry
of Justice has reviewed prosecution data between 1992 and 1999 for TV licence fee
evasion, prior to the introduction of the concession, and established that there were
no prosecutions of defendants over the age of 75 during this period.</p>
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