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12th May 2016
12:24pm BST

"There will be pilots of a more flexible payment system to benefit those on lower incomes and make it fairer for everyone. At the moment people have to pay for the first year in only six months, meaning six much higher monthly payments. And we will take forward many of the recommendations from David Perry QC’s review to make the process of investigating and prosecuting licence fee evasion more effective and fair."https://twitter.com/brijoyce/status/730713433784647681 This suggestion by one Twitter user might be a goer in the future: https://twitter.com/Wriggy/status/730710262618165248 Whittingdale also announced that he would unfreeze the licence fee:
"The licence fee has been frozen at £145.50 since 2010. We will end this freeze, and will increase the licence fee in line with inflation to 2021-22, at which point there will be a new settlement. In line with the other reforms to funding announced last July, this means that the BBC will have a flat-cash settlement to 2021-22."The BBC's highest paid stars will also have to declare their earnings as part of the new Charter.

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