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The BBC has spent nearly £400,000 on school fees in the past year for the children of foreign-based journalists, averaging about £20,000 per child.
According to new figures, the amount spent from the start of the last financial year until mid-March 2024, was about £50,000 more than was spent on such fees in the full 12 months of the previous financial year.
Over two years the corporation has spent nearly £750,000 on these fees.
According to figures released under Freedom of Information rules, from April 2023 until the middle of March, there were 20 children of 10 employees based overseas who received these school fees. A total of £398,307 was spent on these children’s education.
The year before, from April 2022 to March 2023, £348,808 was spent on school fees for 17 children of nine staff who were based outside the UK.
BBC Broadcasting House. Over two years the corporation has spent nearly £750,000 on school fees for children of journalists based abroad
A campaign group said that licence fee payers would be fuming that they were ‘forking out for school fees’.
In making the disclosure, the BBC said it paid some school fees for the children of ‘staff based overseas in its BBC News Bureaux’.
But the corporation refuses to
