[Uram-rejections] G2DQU SK

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> From: Brian Reay <no.sp at m.com>
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> Subject: Re: G2DQU SK
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:50:25 -0000 (UTC)
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> Jeff <jeff at ukra.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> OFCOM funding doesn't work like that. No matter what the license fee,
> >> not a penny would go to OFCOM. It is simply buying, or not as things
> >> are, a 'bargaining' position.
> >> 
> >> Not a penny of any licence fee goes to OFCOM but the look after some
> >> licence payers.
> >> 
> > 
> > Ofcom's accounts would seem to suggest the opposite.
> > 
> > Whilst not specifically detailed for Amateur Licences, Ofcom certainly 
> > retains the income from licensing in other sectors.
> > 
> > It is listed in teh accounts and they also make the statement:
> > 
> > "Ofcom raises its funds from the
> > following sources:
> > Sector stakeholder funding
> > Broadcast licence fees for:
> >  Television
> >  Radio
> > Administrative charges for:
> >  Electronic networks and services
> > and making available associated
> > facilities
> >  Postal services regulation"
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> The funding comes from Parliament as a 'vote', the licence fees etc go to
> the treasury 'pot' which (of course) eventually finds its way to the 'vote'
> but so does every other bit of gov. income. This type of funding route is
> not unique, it is used for a number of pseudo independent gov. departments.
> It is, in a way, almost a private agency, providing a service for a fixed
> fee, the vote, to the government. In theory, it provides better cost
> control- they get a fixed fee (the vote) and have to provide the service.
> If it goes bad, the government can blame them, they are, pseudo
> independent. 
> 
> This, not the blame bit, was explained, at an Ofcom meeting when they were
> launched.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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