This is not a proposal to scrap the BBC but a more limited proposal to scrap the machinery of the licence fee and save, in the process, approximately £100m. The BBC would instead be funded by a direct government grant of some kind.
The former Director General of the BBC Greg Dyke has recommended that the machinery be scrapped and the £100m saving ploughed into public service broadcasting on commercial channels. Although Mr Dyke makes his recommendation as part of a report to the Conservative Party, Tory Culture spokesman Jeremy Hunt has already set out the reasons why he opposes this kind of move.
The alternative to Greg Dyke's suggestion is to simply scrap the licence fee, leave the £100m with taxpayers. That is what this StarChamber is suggesting.
Savings id: BBC licence fee.
Annual saving: Approximately £100m.
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Previous idea for saving: (23) Abolition of the Greater London Assembly.
