MPs Demand BBC Call Off Licence Fee Debt Collectors During Lockdown

Two women embrace outside Broadcasting House, after MPs voted on a bill relating to the BBC licence fee, in London on March 25, 2014. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

A group of Conservative MPs has written to the BBC to demand it stop sending out bailiffs as an “essential” service during the national lockdown to collect unpaid licence fees.

The letter, signed by 23 backbenchers, accuses the BBC of “continuing to prosecute and harass vulnerable people and families during the lockdown.”