Post by Teddy Bear on Jul 10, 2012 21:12:22 GMT
As part of demands from the previous Labour government, 50% of BBC programmes must be made outside London by 2016 at studios in Cardiff, Bristol, Belfast, Salford and Glasgow. I haven't checked the location of any of these studios, with the exception of Salford, but I'm willing to bet all of them are in Labour constituencies. Salford certainly is.
I can understand the need for Police, Fire, and Ambulance services to be spread adequately around the country, but why a publicly funded media organisation? Especially when it costs the licence fee payer so much to fund this imbecilic and selfish demand. Does it matter where a programme is made or produced, especially when the cost for transporting staff to the different venues to make them is so exorbitant? Just to 3 of them from London the cost is £30,000 per week, and this is based on the expense the BBC pays off the bat. The real cost from staff putting their travel costs on expenses is not included in this figure.
The BBC declined to provide figures for the previous financial year or say how many tickets were for first-class travel. Why?
The licence fee payer has a right to know.
Angela Sargeant, the BBC’s head of expenses management, said: ‘Travel is essential to the BBC’s core business'.
Essential travel is essential to the BBC business, not extravagant political machinations.
Idiots!
I can understand the need for Police, Fire, and Ambulance services to be spread adequately around the country, but why a publicly funded media organisation? Especially when it costs the licence fee payer so much to fund this imbecilic and selfish demand. Does it matter where a programme is made or produced, especially when the cost for transporting staff to the different venues to make them is so exorbitant? Just to 3 of them from London the cost is £30,000 per week, and this is based on the expense the BBC pays off the bat. The real cost from staff putting their travel costs on expenses is not included in this figure.
The BBC declined to provide figures for the previous financial year or say how many tickets were for first-class travel. Why?
The licence fee payer has a right to know.
Angela Sargeant, the BBC’s head of expenses management, said: ‘Travel is essential to the BBC’s core business'.
Essential travel is essential to the BBC business, not extravagant political machinations.
Idiots!
BBC spends £30,000 a WEEK shuttling staff between London, Glasgow and Belfast
By Miles Goslett
The BBC spent about £30,000 a week during the last financial year shuttling people between London, Glasgow and Belfast as more of its programmes are made outside the capital.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the Corporation spent about £1.6 million on 9,000 fares.
Air fares accounted for the majority of the expenditure, with £809,483 spent on tickets to and from Glasgow, and £607,446 on flights to and from Belfast. A further £189,302 went on rail fares between London and Glasgow.
However, the total is likely to be even higher as the figures do not include trips paid for by staff and claimed back on expenses.
The BBC declined to provide figures for the previous financial year or say how many tickets were for first-class travel.
The BBC’s £1.5 billion regionalisation policy means 50 per cent of programmes must be made outside London by 2016 at studios in Cardiff, Bristol, Belfast, Salford and Glasgow.
Programmes including Eggheads, The Review Show and some of the Lottery shows have moved from London to BBC Scotland’s studios in Glasgow.
BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live and some editions of Panorama are now made in Belfast – often by staff who live in England.
Critics say this means staff and guests are simply transported to and from London to another part of Britain. In the case of The Review Show, for example, host Martha Kearney does not live in Glasgow and has to commute there every time she presents it.
A source who works on Sunday Morning Live said many staff, including host Samira Ahmed, commute from London, running up large bills in the process.
Earlier this year it was revealed that Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker is driven 200 miles by taxi from Salford to his Surrey home each week at a cost of about £15,000 a year.
Angela Sargeant, the BBC’s head of expenses management, said: ‘Travel is essential to the BBC’s core business'.
By Miles Goslett
The BBC spent about £30,000 a week during the last financial year shuttling people between London, Glasgow and Belfast as more of its programmes are made outside the capital.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the Corporation spent about £1.6 million on 9,000 fares.
Air fares accounted for the majority of the expenditure, with £809,483 spent on tickets to and from Glasgow, and £607,446 on flights to and from Belfast. A further £189,302 went on rail fares between London and Glasgow.
However, the total is likely to be even higher as the figures do not include trips paid for by staff and claimed back on expenses.
The BBC declined to provide figures for the previous financial year or say how many tickets were for first-class travel.
The BBC’s £1.5 billion regionalisation policy means 50 per cent of programmes must be made outside London by 2016 at studios in Cardiff, Bristol, Belfast, Salford and Glasgow.
Programmes including Eggheads, The Review Show and some of the Lottery shows have moved from London to BBC Scotland’s studios in Glasgow.
BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live and some editions of Panorama are now made in Belfast – often by staff who live in England.
Critics say this means staff and guests are simply transported to and from London to another part of Britain. In the case of The Review Show, for example, host Martha Kearney does not live in Glasgow and has to commute there every time she presents it.
A source who works on Sunday Morning Live said many staff, including host Samira Ahmed, commute from London, running up large bills in the process.
Earlier this year it was revealed that Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker is driven 200 miles by taxi from Salford to his Surrey home each week at a cost of about £15,000 a year.
Angela Sargeant, the BBC’s head of expenses management, said: ‘Travel is essential to the BBC’s core business'.