The Secretary of Culture said that the BBC license rate is “inapplicable” and insisted that “there are no options out of the table” when the government begins a review of the current background model of the corporation at the end of this year.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Lisa Nandy said there were “problems” with the annual position, with “less and less people” paying the £ 174.50 rate.
The letter, which expires in 2027 and is under review, is an agreement between the BBC and the government that establishes the terms and purposes of the Corporation, including the existence of the license rate.
A BBC spokeswoman said the station expects to get involved with the government and ensure the long -term future of the BBC.
Nandy has already begun negotiations with BBC about the financing of corporations.
He currently obtains most of his income from the license rate: in the last financial year, the BBC received £ 3.7 billion, or approximately two thirds of his total income, from him.
“We are open to a different system,” he told The Telegraph, but admitted that preferred options had not yet advanced.
She added that the government wanted the public contribution in the configuration of the new model to create “a more fair and sustainable system.”
According to the BBC, 80% of households currently pay the license rate.
Nandy also said that he had been “very worried” about the way the rate had forced in the past, since he had found the leg to disproportion target.
Two BBC reviews found that gender disparity was due to social factors.
The review in 2017 detailed a gender bias towards homes only for women, a greater probability that women respond to television licensed investigation officers and a greater possibility that they get involved with an officer.
In 2023, the BBC established plans to reduce the high proportion of women processed by evasion of the license rate, after the figures showed that they represented 76% of the 52,376 people condemned for that reason in 2020.
Nandy has previously said that the position was “deeply regressive” and that he was thinking “quite radical and creative” about the alternatives. But the minister has ruled out the use of general taxes to finance the BBC.
However, he kept open the possibility of a subscription model.
Last month in an interview of the Sunday Times, the president of the corporations suggested that the richest homes could be charged more.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “The public is concerned about the BBC and we have launched our greatest public commitment exercise, so that the public can help conduct and shape what they want from a universal and independent BBC in the future.
“We want to continue reforming and evolving and we hope to participate with the government in the next letter and ensure the long -term future of the BBC.”
