For point of reference, a chauffered driven car for the BBC chairman costed £100,000 a year in 2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/05/

For point of reference, a chauffered driven car for the BBC chairman costed £100,000 a year in 2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/05/new_chairman_patten_rejects_bb.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2011/05/ne... I'm sure cutting a few layers of management and their associated perks would yield more than enough savings compared to vandalising publicly-funded content. The real reason is here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/05/osborne-accuses-bbc-of-imperial-ambitions-and-calls-for-savings http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/05/osborne-accus... > You wouldn’t want the BBC to completely crowd out national newspapers By this, George Osbourne means friends of the Tories like Paul Dacre and Rupert Murdoch.