[Gllug] BBC Open Source

[Sean Burlington]

On Friday 15 July 2005 1:31 pm, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On 15/7/2005, "Rev Simon Rumble" <simon at rumble.net> wrote:
> >>http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/
> >
> >So how much of that £1 million/month is associated with collecting the
> >license fee?
>
> Whoops, that's £1/month per household.  Joining up other information[1],
> it would appear that of that £1, 0.43 is spent on transmission and a
> whopping .057 is spent on collection.  Very sneaky tricks with numbers.
>
> [1] "Cost of collection currently = 5.7% of licence fee income" from
> http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-03-08.1230.3&u=2


The criminal side of it isn't as bad as I thought:

"latest annual Home Office figures show the number imprisoned for not paying a 
TV Licensing fine was 22"

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/thinktanks/story/0,10538,755018,00.html

Though I suspect that the 5.7% doesn't include any costs associated with non 
(or late) payment of fines.

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Sean
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