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Former Director General of BBC, Mark Thompson has alleged the broadcasting Trust chairman Lord Patten and trustee Anthony Fry gave for misleading parliament over the evidence presented on pay-offs.
Mr. Thompson, now the New York Times CEO, has claimed that Lord Patten and Anthony Fry communicated “specific untruths and inaccuracies” during a PAC hearing over excessive pay-offs to senior executives.
Mr. Thompson will appear before the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday regarding the investigations on controversial golden goodbye deals. He has made a written submission to the MPs ahead of the hearing and insisted that Lord Patten had been “fully briefed” regarding the details of severance packages to former deputy director general Mark Byford and former marketing chief Sharon Baylay.
According to the leaked extracts of the submission, Mr. Thompson has written: “The picture painted for the PAC by the BBC Trust witnesses on 10 July 2013 was — in addition to specific untruths and inaccuracies — fundamentally misleading about the extent of Trust knowledge and involvement.”
“The insinuation that they were kept in the dark by me or anyone else is false and is not supported by the evidence.”
Byford received a £949,000 ($1.48 million, 1,100,000 euros) pay-off while Baylay walked away with £394,638.
Mr. Thompson has told to have the emails contradicting Patten’s testimony that he was not always included in the process of pay-offs’ determination and said: “In fact, Lord Patten was himself fully briefed, in writing as well as orally, about the Mark Byford and Sharon Baylay settlements soon after his arrival as chairman in 2011.”
A BBC Trust spokesman titled the submission “a bizarre document” and ruled out the claims that Lord Patten and Mr. Fry misled the PAC.
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