This Insight explores the relationship between Pension Credit and free TV licences, and includes an interactive dashboard to estimate the number of households affected.
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Press regulation: international comparisons (170 KB, PDF)
This Note provides a brief overview of systems of press regulation in a number of foreign countries. Where possible, it details the sanctions available to the regulator in the event that a newspaper breaches a voluntary or statutory code of industry practice. If there is an established mechanism for the arbitration of press complaints, this is noted.
Unless otherwise stated, information in this Note was supplied to the House of Commons Library by the research services of the relevant parliaments.
A companion Note, Press regulation: the debate, looks at the position in the UK.
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Press regulation: international comparisons (170 KB, PDF)
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A consultation on decriminalising non-payment of the TV licence fee closed on 1 April 2020. This Library Paper looks at the current offence and what's been said on decriminalisation.
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This Library Paper looks at the BBC's decision to end the current scheme of free TV licences for the over-75s. The scheme was due to end from 1 June 2020. This has been put back to 1 August 2020 because of the coronavirus situation.
