Petition · past parliament

Abolish the tv licence

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

In this day and age what company can receive £5 billion pounds and have to do nothing to earn it. I acknowledge that the BBC is an institution but no one wants to live in one.
I cannot think of one company who has free access to funding without a plan to raise funding.
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There should be a transition period to enable the BBC to enable itself to raise funds as do all other tv channels to create income.
This is the case of all corporate company's and the BBC should stand or fall on its own feet.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

27 Nov 2018 Petition opened for signatures
28 Nov 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19
Status Rejected
Rejected 28 Nov 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.