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BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten has called the size of severance payments made to senior BBC managers a matter of "shock and dismay".
Lord Patten and director general Lord Hall are being questioned by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee over £25m paid to 150 outgoing executives.
The corporation has been criticised by the National Audit Office over the figures saying it risked public trust.
The BBC said the savings it had made exceeded the cost of the payments.
In 14 of the cases looked at by the National Audit Office (NAO), the payments far exceeded the amount to which the outgoing executives were entitled.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "Weak governance arrangements have led to payments that exceeded contractual requirements and put public trust at risk."
Lord Hall has said he believed the BBC "lost its way on payments in recent years".
"These payments were from another era and we are putting a stop to them," he added.
The BBC announced in April it was consulting staff on capping redundancy payments at £150,000 or 12 months' salary, whichever is lower.
It is the BBC's executive board remuneration committee that takes decisions on senior pay packages but the BBC Trust has to hold the executive board to account.
The trust asked the NAO to carry out a review following public concern about the BBC's severance payments to senior managers.
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