Claim: Channel 4 is in receipt of taxpayers' money.
Fact-check: Misleading for Nadine Dorries to say Channel 4 is 'in receipt of taxpayers' money' - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true in the usual meaning of that phrase. channel 4 funds itself with commercial operations. its debt appears on public accounts, but it also pays tax.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2021-11-29T00:00:00