Given that under the one-off agreement between the Department and the BBC Trust, the Comptroller and Auditor General is unable, without the consent of the BBC Trust, to inquire into the regularity of the £450,000 severance payment to the director-general, would it not make sense to give the NAO unfettered access for its value-for-money audits and place the BBC on the same basis as every other public body?
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Proceeding contribution from
Richard Bacon
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 12 November 2012.
It occurred during Urgent question on BBC.
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