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In today's budget, the Chancellor George Osborne announced that responsibility for the policy and delivery of free TV licences for the over 75s is to be shifted from the government to the 麻豆官网首页入口 - at a cost of more than half a billion pounds.

To balance that, says the 麻豆官网首页入口's Director General Tony Hall, the government has committed to let the licence fee increase by inflation; to close the so-called catch-up loophole which permits viewers to watch TV without a licence; and to return the ring-fenced money from the licence fee which is currently being used to support broadband roll-out.

Is it a good deal for the audience and the 麻豆官网首页入口? Does it mean cuts or continuity? We investigate.