This BBC senior manager who did not know about Jimmy Savile got four times the pension pot for less service than BBC Scotland’s 44 year-service NHS Scotland victim today

From BBC Scotland today, headlining, the above and:

An NHS executive has received a near £400,000 redundancy pay-off after retiring from a health board, new figures show. Following a 44-year career in the health service, Mary Morgan retired as chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) in May. But it has now been revealed Morgan received a £378,000 payment “under contractual redundancy terms” as part of an exit that came after NHS NSS was merged into a new quango called Public Services Delivery (PSD) Scotland in April. A PSD Scotland spokesperson said Morgan retired after an “exceptional career” and all payments were in accordance with the terms and conditions of her employment.

The same accounts show Morgan’s pension pot, known as The Cash Equivalent Transfer Value, is just over £2m.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4g11xkyj1jo

Not being used by BBC Scotland for comparison, Mark Byford, former Deputy Director-General of the BBC has a pension pot valued at nearly £8 million.

Byford, at the time of the various abusive behaviours was in a position of responsibility but knew nothing of it.

  • As Deputy Director-General and head of journalism he had institutional responsibility for large parts of the BBC’s editorial and operational culture during those years.
  • There is no evidence that Byford personally knew about or was involved in the abuse itself. He has publicly stated he never heard the rumours, and the official inquiries have not linked him to knowledge of or cover-up of the offences.
  • He was in a very senior position of responsibility for a substantial part of the later period of Savile’s known BBC-related offending, but he had already departed before the scandal broke and before the most criticised management decisions of 2011–12.

Byford’s pension pot is £8 million. https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/licence-payers-fund-bbc-chiefs-8m-pension-jjfj5nl6h70


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