ANGRY MPs have slammed the BBC after it was revealed almost 200 of their bosses have received pay-offs of more than £100,000 each in the past three years.
They said the windfalls were like “winning the lottery” and a spending watchdog is to investigate the scale of the severance packages on offer.
The BBC has already come under fire from MPs for its “cavalier” use of licence fee™ money after chiefs admitted short-lived Director-General George Entwistle, 50, was given a pay-off of £450,000.
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show that between 2010 and 2011 redundancy payments at the BBC more than doubled to £58million.
A total of 14 executives got payoffs of more than £300,000 each, while 194 bosses got £100,000 each.
The biggest pay-off recorded was £949,000 made to the BBC’s former Deputy Director-General Mark Byford, 54, in 2010.
Tory MP Richard Bacon, 50, said: “For a long time the BBC has been rather too fast and loose with licence payers.”