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2nd August 2019
07:51am BST

This change is as a result of around 12% of people evading paying their TV licence fee.
To help solve the issue, the government is announcing a five-year contract for the collection of the licence fee, which will be put out to public tender later this year.
Minister Bruton said that "it is clear that due to the nature of technological change and the movement towards digital devices, the design of the TV licence fee will have to change".
He also added:
"This is a fundamental reform that will take time to develop, but it will future proof the funding model, taking account of changes in technology and in how content is now consumed."
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