£5m

Cost of BBC's Savile-related inquiries set to top £5m

The BBC has published figures today (Tuesday 16 July) revealing the cost of its inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal are likely to exceed £5m of licence payers money.

The BBC spent a total of £2.4m on The Pollard Review, the inquiry led by the former Sky News boss Nick Pollard. Two further inquiries have increased the sum to £4.9m up to 31 March 2013 with final...