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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
George Thompson

Netflix and Amazon Prime subscribers could be forced to pay TV licence fee

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has declined to rule out the possibility of making Netflix and Amazon Prime subscribers pay the BBC licence fee.

While Ms Nandy rejected proposals for funding the BBC through a levy on streamers or direct taxation, she stopped short of confirming the licence fee would not be extended to include the platforms.

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