The BBC’s highest-paid bosses have been spending up to £500 a time on food for staff meetings, according to figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.

Rank and file staff are only allowed to claim up to £6 for lunch if they are away from the BBC’s offices for more than five hours at a time.

However, it would appear there is a different rule when it comes to senior directors.

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

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.