BBC paid out £25m in severance pay

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1 July 2013 Last updated at 06:38 ET

The NAO found that the BBC had breached its own policies on severance

The BBC paid out £25m in severance payments to senior BBC managers in the three years to December 2012, according to a National Audit Office report.

The top 10 payments accounted for 20% of the total paid out.

The BBC said the savings it had made during that time from senior manager redundancies exceeded the cost of severance payments.

The BBC's director general Tony Hall said: "These payments were from another era and we are putting a stop to them.

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