Cost-cutting BBC spends thousands - on a fish tank

by amyjudd | June 14, 2008 at 08:34 pm | 230 views | 3 comments

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The BBC is coming under fire again today as details are being leaked about how the company spends thousands of pounds a year (more than 2,000) on maintaining their fish tanks in just one of their London offices.
I suppose this would ok, except there are reports that they are cutting costs by banning taxis for female staff to get home safely at night.
I remember visiting the Bloomberg offices in London and finding out that they spend thousands and thousands of pounds every year keeping fresh cut flowers in their office. This is the same situation I suppose.

The document details the expenditure for 'one year's aquaria maintenance' at BBC Marylebone High Street as 1,951.04 [pounds], with parking costs adding a further 156 [pounds].

BBC bosses are spending thousands of pounds of licence-payers' money on maintaining a fish tank

Insiders said the BBC had up to a dozen fish tanks across all its sites, and that the total annual bill could be nearer to 20,000 [pounds].

But a spokeswoman for the corporation said that they were 'unaware' of the number of tanks it possessed or the annual cost of keeping them in good order.

The discovery will fuel anger over how the BBC is spending licence-payers' money.

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Luiz Castro

at 21:13 on June 14th, 2008

good stuff:

amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Government owened companies always spend money in unusual things, when the Corporations spend wird, shareholders screan load, when the government does, who takes care?

Beaulieu

at 12:15 on June 15th, 2008

good stuff:

amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Beaulieu

at 12:30 on June 15th, 2008

Thanks for the extra information about the BBC not spending money to ensure their female employees are safe at night. I think the women should protest outside the BBC or have get a Facebook pressure group.