Pressure piled on BBC to open up accounts

Pressure piled on BBC to open up accounts

The BBC is facing renewed calls to open its accounts to full scrutiny by the National Audit Office following a scare over its financial controls.

Link: BBC calls in Ernst & Young over controls scare

Labour MP Christopher Bryant said it was time that limitations to NAO access be scrapped.

Last week, it emerged that Ernst & Young should be conducting an independent review of controls after corporation chairman Michael Grade said he had heard ‘general and specific criticisms’.

Bryant applauded the move, describing Grade as a ‘robust defender’ of the public interest, but added: ‘Public money should be publicly accountable.’

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