On report

Looks like the BBC has reached at least one compromise with the Public Accounts Committee. The MPs had demanded details of all 150 severance pay and benefits enhancements reached with senior management over the past three years; the BBC tried to argue that a straightforward handover might breach data protection laws. Now, it seems, the NAO, whose first report sampled 60 of those severance deals and 60 additional benefit cases (some of them overlaps) are back, going over the remainder.

And the inquiry into possible payments where "other guidelines may have been breached" (which I take to mean the Fincham and Douglas exit deals) will be conducted by KPMG.

DG Tony Hall has promised both reports will shared with the PAC next month.