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					Originally Posted by  Mike L
					 
				 
				But none of this affects my main point, which was that the BBC is not tax-funded and is therefore not influenced by government policies. 
			
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 As I understand it, the government holds the purse strings; it decides what the licence fee should be, and also how much of it the BBC should get.
Licence fee money goes to the government not the BBC.