BBC alters budgets to pay rent

The BBC Trust has been busy with its calculators, adjusting budgets in order to cover the cost of rents, following the sale of many of the corporation’s freehold properties.

The BBC has pubished details of the service agreements for the twenty eight TV, radio and online services to the end of March 2011.

It turns out that the cost of renting property is around £23 million a year and this figure has been spread across the service licences.

This sale of the property was seen as a radical reform of the BBC estate and these rental charges are now just a way of life for the BBC.

The BBC Trust is, at the moment, under the government’s microscope, as before the election the Tories did say the BBC Trust would be scrapped.