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BBC Trust minutes are back on top form - as transparent as a breeze block. The record of the March meeting notes agreement on the DG's objectives for 2014/5 - without printing them; the BBC's objectives for 2014/5, without printing them; the BBC's budget for 2014/5 and the Trust's budget for 2014/5 - without any detail or direction of travel whatsoever.

Only one bit of fun for me: the meeting approved the addition of Tim Davie, now CEO of BBC Worldwide, back onto the main Executive Board. One sage (or maybe more) noted that this might affect certain relativities. The BBC is committed to yearly publication of the ratio between median pay of the Exectuive Board and the median pay of the BBC overall. The current ratio is 9 to 1, "which is expected to reduce over time".

Tim Davie's last published salary was £349k - we have yet to discover his deal at Worldwide. But this minute suggests it might have gone up quite a bit.

"It was agreed that two executive director pay multiples would be published in the BBC Annual Report and Accounts, one which would include the CEO, BBC Worldwide and one which would not."