Avoidance

The promised review of tv licence fee enforcement will report by June 2015, according to terms of reference published by the the DCMS today.

This could be more worrying for the BBC than the Charter Review itself. Decriminalisation looks inevitable, and forecasts of what will happen to evasion under civil penalties are going to be hugely inexact.  There's going to more evasion, of course, and the likely costs of recovering £145.50 in each individual case are never going to make economic sense. It's an easy way for Tories to deliver a smaller BBC. Maybe they won't be in power..