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06 Nov 2008
The BBC Trust has rejected demands from the Commons Public Accounts Committee to open the BBC’s accounts to unfettered inspection by the National Audit Office.
It did so in response to the latest PAC report on an investigation by the NAO into BBC purchasing.
MPs said the Trust alone decides what reviews are conducted on how the BBC spend the public’s money, adding: ‘We remain convinced that the only effective way to provide proper scrutiny is for the comptroller and auditor general to have the same powers to identify and undertake studies that apply to the other value for money work we examine.’
The trust said it has the responsibility to ensure that value for money is achieved and ‘an explicit duty to safeguard the independence of the BBC’. Current arrangements are satisfactory for those purposes, the body added.
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