The cost of a TV licence is to rise by £5 to £174.50 in 2025, the government has announced. Thousands more households are also to be offered support to pay the licence fee, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced on Friday.

The Government has confirmed the cost of a TV Licence will rise from April 2025, up from the current £169.50 a year, with the price of a black and white TV licence also rising

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The BBC licence fee will increase in line with inflation each year until 2027, rising in April to £174.50, the Government has announced. It will be an increase of £5, or an extra 42p a month, after the last £10.50 rise brought the charge to £169.50 in April.

The TV licence fee will rise by £5 in April next year, making it the second year in a row the cost has gone up.

The BBC TV Licence fee is set to rise again, taking the new price to £174.50. The Licence Fee, which funds BBC TV and radio programming as well as public interest broadcasting like Welsh channel S4C, will go up by £5 from April 2027, it has been confirmed today.

The BBC TV licence fee is set for another hike next year. The cost of a TV licence will see an increase of £5, taking it from £169.50 to £174.50 starting from next April, in a move that aims to place the broadcaster on a "stable financial footing" with a 2.