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    Assuming that the average age of the BBC staff relocating is 35, and taking the minimum London weighting of £3,537, the decision to allow staff to keep these payments may ultimately cost the BBC about £37.8m. executive of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: "One of the key reasons for the BBC’s move to Salford was to save money, so it’s absurd that relocated staff are keeping their London weightings. Three years ago, Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, said the relocation would be ‘very cost-effective’." Full Article at Times Online
    One of the key reasons for the BBC’s move to Salford was to save money, so it’s absurd that relocated staff are keeping their London weightings. Three years ago, Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, said the relocation would be ‘very cost-effective’.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
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BBC staff are 'bribed' to move north
  1. This sounds like having your cake and eating it
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  2. It would be unreasonable to expect staff to take a reduction in earnings as part of this process
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  3. For the BBC to be using licence-fee payers’ money in this way beggars belief. Money should be spent on producing great programmes, not bribing people who want to stay in London to move to Salford.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago

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