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BBC Hires Former Cabinet Secretary To Soften GBP700m Impact Of Free Licences To Over-75s
- The Guardian, Monday, December 21, 2015 6:21 AM
The BBC has hired the company chaired by former cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell to explore how to get over-75s to voluntarily pay the licence fee and examine how the GBP700m annual costs might be reduced in the future. The corporation has hired consultancy Frontier Economics to investigate how to decrease the GBP700m-plus costs it is taking on as part of the deal imposed by chancellor George Osborne in July.
