BBC is ‘guaranteed licence fee for 10 years’

The BBC is guaranteed to receive the proceeds of the UK’s TV licence fee for another decade, according to Whitehall sources quoted in The Guardian. However, the government is likely to review the level of the licence fee in five years’ time – amid concerns in some quarters that the BBC is still complacent and believes it has done enough to demonstrate it has put its house in order post-Hutton.