The BBC spends more than £20,000 a year on buying TV licences for its offices, MailOnline can reveal.

The Corporation pays the money to outsourcing giant Capita, which then gives it back to the BBC to fund its programming.

Campaigners described the situation as ‘ridiculous’, and called on the BBC to stop wasting resources by needlessly paying thousands of pounds to itself.

Reported by the Mail Online. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.