LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Britain's culture minister said on Monday the government would freeze the BBC's funding for the next two years, in what it said was a bid to protect the public's finances.
Nadine Dorries said the licence fee, a tax on all television-owning households, would be frozen for two years and that it would rise in line with inflation for the four years after that.
(Reporting by Kate Holton and Kylie MacLellan, Editing by Paul Sandle)
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