BBC sport and music coverage examined
8 February 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
The Committee of Public Accounts holds an evidence session on the BBC’s management of its coverage of major sporting and music events. It follows a National Audit Office (NAO) report on the issue. Watch live from 4.30 pm
- Video and Audio: BBC sport and music evidence session
- NAO Report: The BBC's management of its coverage of major sporting and music events: review by the Comptroller and Auditor General (external site)
- Committee of Public Accounts
Witnesses
- Jeremy Peat, Trustee, BBC Trust
- Mark Thompson, Director General
- Roger Mosey, Director of 2012 Olympics
- Tim Davie, Director, Audio and Music, British Broadcasting Corporation
The role of the Public Accounts Committee is to examine "the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit".
The Committee’s work is based on the reports of the National Audit Office (NAO), in particular their value for money studies of whether publicly-funded bodies are operating with economy, efficiency and effectiveness.