BBC savings and reform

In order to maximise its ability to deliver the savings likely to be required by the new licence fee settlement, the BBC must: • improve the information it collects on its savings programme to include data on the impact of its savings measures. This should include consideration of the risk that relatively short-term content savings measures reduce the long-term value for money of the intellectual property generated

• undertake more consistent identification and dissemination of lessons arising from its delivery of savings measures;

• expand its use of internal cost and efficiency benchmarking for areas such as Nations and News where external benchmarking is limited; and

• ensure it implements the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and pursues further standardisation of operations across the organisation in order to deliver further savings while also ensuring that it has sufficient capacity to continue its operations and deliver a resilient service to its audience