BBC Bosses Grilled Over Bumper Pay-Offs

BBC bosses are being grilled by MPs over how senior staff were given hefty pay-offs that often breached the corporation's own guidelines.

Director-general Tony Hall and chairman of the BBC Trust Lord Patten are appearing before the Public Accounts Committee, along with human resources director Lucy Adams and trust member Anthony Fry.

The session in the House of Commons comes after a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed huge payments, of hundreds of thousands of pounds in some cases, were made even though executives were not always entitled to the money.

Lord Patten began by telling the group of cross-party MPs that it was "a question of shock and dismay for us" when it emerged that staff had been paid more than they were contractually owed in some cases.

Committee chair and Labour MP Margaret Hodge demanded answers

He said the BBC Trust has been pressing for an overall pay reduction since 2009.

According to the NAO in the three years up to last December, the BBC spent £25m on severance payments for 150 high-ranking staff.

And since 2005, the corporation has made payments totaling £60m to more than 400 senior managers.

Among them, former BBC director-general George Entwistle was awarded twice the money he was entitled to. He was paid £450,000 despite being in the job for just 54 days amid the Jimmy Savile sex scandal.

Lord Patten says he was shocked at the NAO's findings

A pay-off to former chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has also been criticised. She left last year with £670,000 - more than twice her salary.

And former deputy director-general Mark Byford was paid £949,000 when he left two years ago.

But the former BBC2 controller, Roly Keating, who was given a £375,000 pay-off, returned the money after learning it had not been properly authorised.

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