Tuesday, July 02, 2013

BBC's 'outrageous disregard' for the licence payers' cash: Staff were handed £369m in payoff deals...

The BBC handed its own staff £369million in severance payments over eight years, the spending watchdog revealed yesterday.

MPs said the massive sum showed an ‘outrageous disregard for licence-fee payers’ money’.

The National Audit Office said the BBC often breached its own guidelines and had ‘put public trust at risk’ by authorising the payouts, including £61million to senior managers.

Some staff were even paid twice, pocketing a payoff after working out their notice period in full.

The average individual payments to senior managers rose steadily to £191,000 last year, demonstrating the BBC had a ‘fat cat mentality’, MPs said.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller said the damning report revealed a ‘culture of payoffs that simply cannot be justified’. Full story...

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