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  Courtesy Independent......
  
  BBC Trust says £25m pay-offs for Corporation staff are a 'fundamental failure'
  
  The BBC Trust said the NAO conclusions were 'deeply worrying'
  
  The BBC has been accused by its own governing body of a "fundamental failure of central
  
  oversight and control" after the National Audit Office revealed that the organisation had paid
  
  its departing managers £60m in severance packages since 2005.
  
  The BBC Trust said it was "deeply concerned" after the NAO uncovered huge payments to
  
  managers who the BBC knew had already lined up new jobs. In around a quarter of cases
  
  examined the BBC had paid the departing executives more money than they were
  
  contractually entitled to. Auditors were mystified as to why some had been given car and
  
  private health allowances and ex gratia payments.
  
  In an extraordinary rebuke, Anthony Fry, chair of the BBC Trust's Finance Committee
  
  , said the generosity of the payments would "quite rightly, be met with considerable dismay
  
  by licence fee payers and by BBC staff." In a statement, he said: "There can be no repeat
  
  of such a fundamental failure of central oversight and control."

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