The BBC is again coming under fire from some quarters of the national press for its departmental move to MediaCityUK. This time the controversy is centred on the revelation that relocating staff will be able to keep their London-weighting payments.
A BBC spokesperson confirmed that the 427 relocating staff would be eligible for the payments as "it would be unreasonable to expect staff to take a reduction in earnings as part of this process."
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunter was quoted in the paper as saying: "For the BBC to be using licence-fee payers' money in this way beggars belief.
"Money should be spent on producing great programmes, not bribing people who want to stay in London to move to Salford."
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