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BBC manager pay-offs £1.4m more than needed

Senior managers at the BBC were paid £1.4 million more than their contracts demanded in pay-offs over a three year period, according to a new report.

Senior managers at the BBC were paid £1.4 million more than their contracts demanded in pay-offs, a new report has found. Credit: Press Association

The National Audit Office (NAO) examined a further 90 severance payments made to corporation bosses after its initial study of 60 cases, published earlier this year, showed some staff were paid more than they were entitled to.

The report states: "Across all 150 severance payments to senior managers in the three years to December 2012, the BBC paid more salary in lieu of notice than it was contractually obliged to in 22 cases, at a total cost of £1.4 million."

BBC Director-General Tony Hall has said a review of severance deals agreed over the next two years was underway and the findings would be published in the BBC annual report.