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BBC urged to reveal costs of countering equal pay and race discrimination claims
BBC Broadcasting House in London
MPs have expressed dissatisfaction after the BBC claimed that it could not provide a breakdown of the legal costs it incurred in opposing equal-pay and race-discrimination claims in employment tribunals.
The digital, culture, media and sport committee had asked BBC director-general Tim Davie to provide further information about the broadcaster’s spending on lawyers to fight such cases.
Committee chairman Julian Knight said that he was disappointed by the BBC response, given during an evidence session in September.
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