BBC bosses have been accused of wasting licence-fee money on teaching their staff not to lie.
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Two of the corporation’s top executives appeared before a Commons committee investigating the affair.
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Tory MP Philip Davies asked: “Is funding a training programme to tell your staff not to lie and cheat viewers a good use of licence-fee payers’ money? Perhaps you need to look at your recruitment process if you have to train them on such fundamentals as not lying or cheating?”
Now there is a good question.
But Mr Byford insisted the training programme, called Safeguarding Trust, was a good idea.
And a very telling response.