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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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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