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One joked: “Saves wasting it on making tv programmes for the snowflake and woke brigade.”
Another said: “They don t get a penny from me, and haven t for the past 7 years.”
A third referred to the corporation’s Comic Relief charity appeal and wrote: “It s us who need relief from these comics .”
The BBC has been criticised for scrapping free TV licences for the over 75s (Image: Getty)
The cash is in addition to a separate BBC arrangement for staff taxis, worth up to £74 million when it was last put out to tender in 2018.
The BBC said that £15 million was the maximum possible spend and represented an annual cost of about £2 million.