TV licence fee to rise by £5 to £174.50 in 2025

The outgo of a TV licence is to emergence by £5 to £174.50 successful 2025, the authorities has announced.

Thousands much households are besides to beryllium offered enactment to wage the licence fee, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced connected Friday.

The interest pays for BBC shows and services, and the authorities besides said ministers volition reappraisal the BBC's charter to analyse the corporation's aboriginal funding.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said determination would beryllium "an honorable nationalist speech astir the broadcaster’s semipermanent future".

The £5 summation volition travel into unit successful April, and is importantly little than the £10.50 emergence that was applied earlier this year.

The authorities said it would grow the Simple Payment Plan (SPP) strategy truthful 9,000 other households facing fiscal trouble tin divided the yearly outgo into much manageable fortnightly and monthly instalments.

The outgo of a TV licence is owed to summation successful enactment with ostentation each twelvemonth until 2027, pursuing an statement made successful 2022.

The authorities has returned to calculating the summation by utilizing an yearly ostentation complaint alternatively than a monthly one, which was utilized past year.

Meanwhile, the DCMS said it was is scrapping a reappraisal of the BBC's backing exemplary that was acceptable up by the erstwhile government, and is disbanding its adept panel.

Instead, the authorities volition analyse the contented of BBC backing arsenic portion of the charter reappraisal process, earlier the BBC's existent royal charter expires successful 2027.

The charter sets retired the presumption and purposes of the BBC's beingness and usually lasts for astir a decade.

The reappraisal "will incorporated autarkic adept advice, stakeholder views and nationalist consultation to determine connected however champion to enactment the BBC’s semipermanent future", a connection said.

Nandy said: "The BBC provides much-needed programming for households crossed the country, including children's education, world-class amusement and trusted quality for each radical successful each parts of the UK. I privation to spot it thrive for decades to come.

"Through the Charter Review, we volition person an honorable nationalist speech astir the broadcaster’s semipermanent future, ensuring the BBC has a sustainable nationalist backing exemplary that supports its captious enactment but is besides just and responsive to those who wage for it.

"In the abbreviated term, we are providing the BBC with backing certainty, portion supporting thousands much households facing fiscal hardship to dispersed the outgo of a TV licence."

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has besides announced an other £32.6m for the BBC World Service successful 2025-26.