Claim: The BBC lost £50 million through non-payment of the licence fee this year.
Fact-check: Facebook post makes incorrect claims about TV licence fee non-payment - Full Fact
Verdict: there's no official data yet on how much the bbc lost in 2020/21. the £50 million figure is likely to be based on an estimate from julian knight mp, but this is an estimate of the extra amount lost due to the bbc being above its target for licence fee evasion, not the overall amount lost due to non-payment.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tom Norton
Date published: 2021-08-25T00:00:00