In receipt of monthly threats from the BBC

SIR – My wife and I are waiting for the BBC television licence authorities to visit our home to prosecute us (“The BBC’S future can no longer be ducked”, Leading Article, March 27). When they come, we will return the threatening letters that we have been receiving for more than 18 months.

These are filed with our current and previous television licences, for which we have paid by direct debit for decades. Indeed, when we moved house in June 2022 we informed the department of our change of address. Our licence arrived and automatically renewed in 2023.

We have phoned several times to correct it, but we still get our monthly threatening letter. What a waste of licence payers’ money.

Bev Gray

Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire

SIR – Tim Davie, the BBC’S director general, gave a speech on the future of the BBC, which contained a vision for public service broadcasting in a digital age that should be warmly welcomed.

It also contained a frank acknowledgement that, although the licence fee is good value for money, there is scope for reform.

Mr Davie said that the BBC would look at how to make the fee more progressive, its enforcement fair and proportionate, and open up a public consultation process. However, less than a week after the Government announced it had set up an expert panel to examine the sustainability of the BBC’S current funding model, you reported (March 27) that a Conservative government would not countenance the notion that wealthier Britons could be made to pay a higher licence fee.

To establish an independent group of experts to consider a complex issue, only to undermine it a few days later, is duplicitous. It makes fools of distinguished public servants and cannot give anyone any confidence in the quality of their conclusions.

Pat Younge

Chair, British Broadcasting Challenge London W5