A Bill to de-criminalise the non-payment of the BBC licence fee by persons aged over seventy-five; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
Sir Christopher ChopeConservative
12 February 2025
This bill would stop treating non-payment of the BBC licence fee by people aged over 75 as a criminal offence. Instead, enforcement would move away from prosecution for this age group, using non-criminal means to address non-payment. It does not change the licence fee itself or who must pay beyond switching the over-75s’ enforcement from criminal to non-criminal methods.
The bill is at the second reading stage in the House of Commons and has not yet moved to committee or the Lords; it would need further parliamentary stages to become law.
Generated 21 February 2026
The dissolution of Parliament took place on Thursday 30 May 2024. All business in the House of Commons and House of Lords has come to an end and this bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.