BBC TELEVISION LICENCE FEES

That this House regrets the decision taken by the BBC to ask over-75s to pay television licence fees from June 2020; believes that the responsibility for such decisions should be transferred back to the Government from the BBC with the aim of retaining a universal exemption for over-75s; further believes that, as part of this scheme, arrangements should be made for the over-75s who are better-off to be given the option of contributing sums on a voluntary basis, equivalent to what they would have paid in fees to pay for less well-off families of working age to gain exemption from fees.