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Originally Posted by Sparrow
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.
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That's correct, but I think the point Mike was making is that the Beeb is "apolitical" - in fact, under the terms of the Royal Charter under which it operates, it
has to be. The government decides how much money the Beeb gets, but it can't dictate what it does with it.