More Nandy

Some bits from Lisa Nandy's evidence to the Culture Select Committee, reflecting her conversations with BBC staff. 

"I cannot emphasise strongly enough the gulf between what I hear from BBC employees and the account that I am often given from BBC senior management, including the board, but also the senior executive team. It is really stark."

"I am going to share something with you that one of the reps said to me when we met: she did not feel that there was any meaningful way to make her voice heard or make things change in the organisation. That is quite stark. It is something that I have shared with the senior leadership. I know that the incoming director general takes that very seriously, but it would be wrong of me to come to this Committee and not acknowledge that that is how some of the staff are feeling at the BBC at the moment.

"One thing I heard recently from one of the staff I met as part of the engagement exercise was that she is the only staff member who works in their building. It is not open access to the public any more. They used to have school groups coming in. The BBC still invests hugely in things like choirs and orchestras and so on. But they used to have a lot of that—it used to be a very porous building that could be used for the community and commercially, but they do not even have a receptionist any more. There is literally nobody to go and open the door."