BBC looseness price to enlarge by 2% Media

The BBC licence-fee understanding will finish in 2013. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

The cost of the annual BBC colour TV looseness price will enlarge by 2% to £145.50 per domicile from 1 April.

Next month"s looseness price enlarge was brought in to outcome by an sequence laid prior to the House of Commons today, that will additionally see the cost of a black and white TV looseness enlarge by £1 to £49.

This is the fourth year of a six-year looseness price understanding in between the BBC and the government, that runs to the finish of Mar 2013.

The destiny of the annual looseness price enlarge is some-more capricious than at any time in the BBC"s roughly 90-year history, with both Labour and the Conservatives articulate about the house potentially carrying to get by with less money.

Last year the Tories took the surprising step of forcing a Commons opinion on the annual looseness price increase, arguing that it should be solidified at £139.50.

However, this move was degraded by 334 votes to 156 with the subsidy of Labour and Lib Dem MPs.

The stream six-year looseness price deal, negotiated in 2006, authorised for a 3% annual enlarge for the initial 3 years, afterwards dual years with a 2% boost. The turn of the looseness price for the last year, up to the finish of Mar 2013, has nonetheless to be set.

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