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The BBC spent more than 1.3 million pounds sterling to investigate the Huw Edwards scandal and an examination that results in its procedures, revealing the financial and reputation cost of the case surrounding the presenter in disgrace.
The figure, obtained by the Financial Times via Freedom of Information request, will add concerns concerning the heaviness Bill shoulders by the national diffuser following successive scandals involving some of its most famous stars.
The paid money is equivalent to the annual license fees paid by around 7,600 houses in the United Kingdom.
Payments go in addition to the 3.3 million pounds sterling paid to investigate and cope with the recent scandal of Tim Westwood, the majority of which went to the Linklaters law firm. A independent review was carried out in the surveillance of the BBC on the conduct of the old DJ towards female fans.
The BBC is also faced with more costs to conduct an internal investigation into the realization of a documentary on Gaza, which triggered the controversy after emerging that the 13-year-old narrator was the son of the Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Government of Hamas.
BBC funding is being considerable as it is in the process of being considerable because it is part of initial discussions with the government in relation to the future of license costs which constitute the majority of its income.
The broadcaster has been forced to reduce jobs and programs after pressure on licenses financing in recent years.
Edwards was last September, sentenced to a sentence of six months in prison, suspended from two years, by a London court for accessing indecent images and children's videos.
The hearing followed the resignation of the former news presenter in April, after emerging that a main presenter of the BBC had alleged relations with a series of young people. At the time, he was the best paid director of the diffuser.
BBC's external legal costs for EDWARD's employment advice amounted to £ 340,843, covering the period from October 2023 to September 2024, according to faith data.
Another £ 70,000 was paid for the supply of additional BBC Corporate Investigations Team resources.
However, faith has shown that the highest cost was an examination that results in the effectiveness of its non -editorial policies and processes of Deloitte, which cost £ 958.
The final cost of the derivative journals triggered by the case is probably higher after the appointment of consultancy changes associations to carry out an independent examination of the BBC labor culture in October 2024.
The exam will seek to guarantee that junior staff feel empowered to call the often powerful people who behave badly, according to BBC leaders.
The BBC Insiders said that the cost of internal investigations was considerably lower than those out of the lawyer, even if they opened the broadcaster to mark its own duties.
The BBC said: “As far as possible, we aim to resolve questions without external support, and the decision to order an examination or work by a third party is taken into account, on the basis of the specific circumstances of each case.
“We only produce external legal costs when it is absolutely necessary,” he added.
The BBC bosses revealed this week that Edwards had not yet reimbursed the £ 200,000 he won after being arrested for the image of children's abuse and before resigning last year.
The president of the BBC, Samir Shah, told a committee of deputies this week that the BBC had asked Edwards to return the money “on several occasions, but he does not seem willing. . . There was a time when we thought he could do the right thing for a change. ”
