Post by Teddy Bear on Mar 7, 2013 20:31:38 GMT
The BBC are so generous to their executives, even after they leave.
But then they don't have to earn the money they pay out to themselves.
Just use what they get from those forced to pay it, and keep brainwashing them that it's in their best interests.
For sure the BBC is vile and corrupt, but what does it make the British public for continuing to support it?
But then they don't have to earn the money they pay out to themselves.
Just use what they get from those forced to pay it, and keep brainwashing them that it's in their best interests.
For sure the BBC is vile and corrupt, but what does it make the British public for continuing to support it?
BBC executive's £4,000 flight on expenses AFTER leaving the job: Corporation's taxi claims also rocket by 19% despite drive to slash spending
By Keith Gladdis
The BBC paid £4,200 for its top female executive to fly to the United States – two weeks after she left the corporation.
Caroline Thomson lost her job in September when her role was axed but still collected a pension pot of £1.71million and exit package worth £670,000 – more than twice her salary.
By October the former chief operating officer, who had been tipped as director general, had jetted to Phoenix, Arizona, for a junket paid for by licence fee payers.
The details emerged in the latest report breaking down expenses for senior BBC executives.
Taxi fares for executives earning more than £150,000 have gone up by almost a fifth in a year, it shows.
Miss Thomson, 58, spent £1,178.97 on cabs in the last three months of her 37-year BBC career.
BBC North director Peter Salmon claimed £150.25 for a single journey last June and BBC1 controller Danny Cohen claimed £164 for taxis over two days last August.
Creative director Alan Yentob, who is paid £168,300, spent £822.88 on cars in his quarterly claim.
And former director general Mark Thompson clawed back £454.89 for a two-night stay at a New York hotel last February. He later become chief executive of the New York Times Company but the BBC says the trip was not connected to his search for a job.
Other significant costs included a claim of £586 for flights by £332,900-a-year ‘director of BBC people’ Lucy Adams, when she had to cut her holiday short last year to fulfil a ‘critical role’ in planning for the start of the new director general.
At the other end of the scale, there was evidence of penny-pinching by senior bosses.
Mr Thompson claimed £2.50 for a tram to MediaCity in Salford and director of global news Peter Horrocks claimed 6p for a Skype call from his personal mobile phone.
The corporation yesterday claimed it has made ‘significant progress’ in reducing expenditure, with total expenses down by 8 per cent in a year.
‘The bulk of our expenses are unavoidable routine costs incurred in running a major international broadcasting organisation,’ said a spokesman.
Miss Thomson’s US trip was arranged before her departure, he added.
Last night Conservative MP Jake Berry said the BBC should ‘embrace transparency’.
‘At a time when the BBC is pledging to cut costs it beggars belief that they are paying for former executives to go on taxpayer funding junkets,’ he said.
- Claims for taxi fares have shot up by almost a fifth in the space of a year
- Chief operating officer Caroline Thomson claimed £1,178 fares in last quarter
- But overall expense claims are down eight per cent on last year's figures
By Keith Gladdis
The BBC paid £4,200 for its top female executive to fly to the United States – two weeks after she left the corporation.
Caroline Thomson lost her job in September when her role was axed but still collected a pension pot of £1.71million and exit package worth £670,000 – more than twice her salary.
By October the former chief operating officer, who had been tipped as director general, had jetted to Phoenix, Arizona, for a junket paid for by licence fee payers.
The details emerged in the latest report breaking down expenses for senior BBC executives.
Taxi fares for executives earning more than £150,000 have gone up by almost a fifth in a year, it shows.
Miss Thomson, 58, spent £1,178.97 on cabs in the last three months of her 37-year BBC career.
BBC North director Peter Salmon claimed £150.25 for a single journey last June and BBC1 controller Danny Cohen claimed £164 for taxis over two days last August.
Creative director Alan Yentob, who is paid £168,300, spent £822.88 on cars in his quarterly claim.
And former director general Mark Thompson clawed back £454.89 for a two-night stay at a New York hotel last February. He later become chief executive of the New York Times Company but the BBC says the trip was not connected to his search for a job.
Other significant costs included a claim of £586 for flights by £332,900-a-year ‘director of BBC people’ Lucy Adams, when she had to cut her holiday short last year to fulfil a ‘critical role’ in planning for the start of the new director general.
At the other end of the scale, there was evidence of penny-pinching by senior bosses.
Mr Thompson claimed £2.50 for a tram to MediaCity in Salford and director of global news Peter Horrocks claimed 6p for a Skype call from his personal mobile phone.
The corporation yesterday claimed it has made ‘significant progress’ in reducing expenditure, with total expenses down by 8 per cent in a year.
‘The bulk of our expenses are unavoidable routine costs incurred in running a major international broadcasting organisation,’ said a spokesman.
Miss Thomson’s US trip was arranged before her departure, he added.
Last night Conservative MP Jake Berry said the BBC should ‘embrace transparency’.
‘At a time when the BBC is pledging to cut costs it beggars belief that they are paying for former executives to go on taxpayer funding junkets,’ he said.