Gavotte

The BBC's opening pay offer in the current round, of 1% to staff on less than £50k pa, is said to be in line with the public sector.

The union spin is slightly different. It calculates that two thirds of staff will get a rise of just £390 a year. It might put around £5m on Anne Bulford's pay bill. Another 1200 staff will get a higher level of London Weighting allowance - adding £572 to their annual pay packet - at a cost to Anne of £686,400.

Let's call the additional expenditure £5.7m. That's against a total UK Public Sector Expenditure in 2012/3 of £3,931m.  0.14% extra on the staff who make the programmes in the year ahead. There will be another offer.